Echoes from the Dead Zone: Across the Cyprus Divide

In the space of a generation, Cyprus - the island of Aphrodite, goddess of beauty and love...
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Author: Yiannis Papadakis
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Echoes from the Dead Zone: Across the Cyprus Divide by Papadakis, Yiannis

Echoes from the Dead Zone: Across the Cyprus Divide

$207.82

Echoes from the Dead Zone: Across the Cyprus Divide

$207.82
Author: Yiannis Papadakis
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

In the space of a generation, Cyprus - the island of Aphrodite, goddess of beauty and love - has experienced an anti-colonial struggle, post-colonial chaos, internecine fighting and hatred, civil war, invasion, population displacements and physical partition. The narrative of Cyprus' recent history has created numerous attitudes and prejudices which run deep but which have never before been explored on a human level. Now for the first time Yiannis Papadakis, firmly planted in the Greek Cypriot world, sets out to discover 'The Other' - the much maligned Turks. Papadakis decided with some trepidation to travek to Constantinople (to his Greek worldview it was still Constantinople) to learn Turkish. There he discovered that actually it is Istanbul, and that Turkey is not the place of his once imagined demonology. Armed with new insights he returned to Cyprus and delved into the two communities, locked in their mutually contemptuous embrace, to explore their common humanity and to understand what has divided them. He focused on Nicosia where the people who used to live together in one neighbourhood found themselves separated by a 'Dead Zone', two armies and a UN force.
His was a journey to the various sides of the Dead Zone and to the various zones of the dead, the realms of memory and history. This book is the moving, sometimes humorous and always fascinating account of that journey.



Author: Yiannis Papadakis
Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
Published: 06/01/2005
Pages: 257
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.48h x 6.34w x 1.04d
ISBN: 9781850434283

About the Author
Yiannis Papadakis is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Cyprus.

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