Mediterranean Working-Class Literatures

Mediterranean Working-Class Literatures / Λογοτεχνικές αφηγήσεις (περί) της εργατικής τάξης στη Μεσόγειο

Edited by: Vasiliki Petsa, Eugenia Sifaki

The present volume was occasioned by the international academic conference ‘Λογοτεχνικές αφηγήσεις (περί) της εργατικής τάξης στη Μεσόγειο/Mediterranean Working-Class Literatures, which was convened at the University of Thessaly, Department of Early Childhood Education, with the support of the European Observatory of Labour Narratives-OBERT and the Eteron – Institute for Research and Social Change. The conference was organized as part of the postdoctoral research project ‘Gender and Ethnicity in Greek Working-Class Literature’ (PI: Vasiliki Petsa), funded by the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation, under the “3rd Call for H.F.R.I. Research Projects to support Post-Doctoral Researchers” (Project Number: 7520).

It was spurred by our desire to address in conjunction two fields of study which remain glaringly under-researched, namely contemporary Mediterranean Studies and Working-Class Studies, with a much-needed focus on literary and wider cultural production. Topics of interest included, but were not limited to, the following: The Mediterranean as a cultural context for working-class narratives; The intersection of class with other social categories (gender, ethnicity, sexuality) in Mediterranean working-class narratives; Comparative examinations of working-class narratives belonging to diverse literary traditions of the Mediterranean; Diasporic working-class narratives; Migration as a motif in Mediterranean working-class narratives; Comparative analysis with other types of working-class narratives in the Mediterranean (cinematic, autobiographical, etc.).