Colonial and Postcolonial Cyprus Transportal Literatures of Empi
‘The colonial history of Cyprus – a partitioned island in a partitioned world – is as often misunderstood as it is forgotten. Yet, as this timely book shows, this fraught history has much to offer postcolonial studies, not least as a catalyst for the ‘tra
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Colonial and Postcolonial Cyprus
You shall not dwell in tombs made by the dead for the living. And though of magnificence and splendour, your house shall not hold your secret nor shelter your longing. For that which is boundless in you abides in the mansion of the sky, whose door is the morning mist, and whose windows are the songs and the silences of night. Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet (1923)
Daniele Nunziata
Colonial and Postcolonial Cyprus Transportal Literatures of Empire, Nationalism, and Sectarianism
Daniele Nunziata St Anne’s College University of Oxford Oxford, UK
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For my parents, My grandparents, And my brothers.
Preface
Six decades ago this year, the eastern-most island of the Mediterranean gained its independence from the British Empire. Or rather, it mostly gained independence. For many people living beyond its shores, the colonial history of Cyprus is something of which they have little knowledge, as though this uncomfortable aspect of the island’s past—and that of the UK—is a fact best forgotten. The bloody reality of its modern history is an uneasy truth not marketable for holiday brochures of golden beaches and turquoise seas. Nonetheless, every Cypriot today still reckons with a century’s worth of violence and dispossession, much of which is rooted in the island’s bitter colonial shackles and extends to
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