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The Return of the Barbarians and the Colonial Order of the Archive

Yiannis Papatheodorou
boundary 2 (2021) 48 (2): 161–176.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-8936705
Published: 01 May 2021
...—all of which reflect Cavafy's engagement with British colonialism in Egypt. The novelist and critic Stratis Tsirkas, also a Greek who grew up in Egypt, has argued that Cavafy's rising aversion to the British occupation regime developed alongside the shifting ideological lines of the Hellenic diaspora...
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Another Colonial History: How Cosmopolitan Was Cavafy's Contemporary Alexandria?

Alexander Kazamias
boundary 2 (2021) 48 (2): 89–121.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-8936691
Published: 01 May 2021
... sources, the acclaimed writer Stratis Tsirkas 8 ( [1958] 1995 : 156–222) was the first to speak about 1882 as a watershed year in Cavafy's life. His argument drew evidence from the first decade of the British occupation, when mainstream opinion among Alexandria's Greek community became explicitly...
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C. P. Cavafy as an Egyptiote

Hala Halim
boundary 2 (2021) 48 (2): 123–160.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-8936698
Published: 01 May 2021
... the committee. Not only were there interconnections, if loose, between Cavafy and these poets writing in Arabic but a source cited by Stratis Tsirkas informs us that the Alexandrian preferred Hafiz Ibrahim's poetry to Shawqi's yet ranked them both beneath Mutran (1971: 79). If so, how would Cavafy have reached...
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Cavafy among the Modernists

Vassiliki Kolocotroni
boundary 2 (2021) 48 (2): 59–87.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-8936684
Published: 01 May 2021
... colonial (see Gallant 2002 ; Kolocotroni and Mitsi 2008 ). While this context for Cavafy's work has been mined and illuminated amply, from the earliest accounts and in openly politicized ways—such as by the then communist Nicolas Calas (as “M. Spieros”) in the early 1930s, to Stratis Tsirkas and George...
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At a Slight Angle to the Empire: Cavafy among the British

Takis Kayalis
boundary 2 (2021) 48 (2): 41–57.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-8936677
Published: 01 May 2021
... sometimes been used to contradict Stratis Tsirkas's portrayal of the poet as a pro-Arab intellectual, who secretly harbored anti-imperialist sentiments. But this is not at all the point I want to make here. In a rather neglected passage from this interview, which refers to Cavafy's rapport at the office...
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Cavafy's Levant: Commerce, Culture, and Mimicry in the Early Life of the Poet

Peter Jeffreys
boundary 2 (2021) 48 (2): 7–39.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-8936670
Published: 01 May 2021
.../ . Sharples Joseph , and Pollard Richard . 2004 . Liverpool: Pevsner Architectural Guides . New Haven, CT : Yale University Press . Tibbles Anthony . 2018 . Liverpool and the Slave Trade . Liverpool : Liverpool University Press . Tsirkas Stratis . 1995 . Ο Πολιτικός...
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Constantine Cavafy in the Colony: Hellenism at the Margins of Empire

Aamir R. Mufti
boundary 2 (2021) 48 (2): 177–203.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-8936712
Published: 01 May 2021
... weight in literary reputation and exposure in the West—besides Cavafy, we might think of George Seferis, Odysseus Elytis, Nikos Kazantzakis, and Stratis Tsirkas, to begin with. But this classicization of “Greece” is also experienced as a burden by many of these writers and the culture at large (see...
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