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The Island (Extract) extract   novel  
  • Author:agent Antigone Kefala http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/kefala-antigone
Issue Details: First known date: 1994... 1994 The Island (Extract)
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Notes

  • This extract in English is also found in 'Displacements 2'. First line: 'We were back at the University, in our places in the Library,'

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Language: English , Greek
Notes:
The English text precedes the Greek translation.
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    y separately published work icon Re-Telling the Tale : Poetry and Prose by Greek-Australian Women Writers Helen Nickas (editor), Konstandina Dounis (editor), Bundoora : Owl Publishing , 1994 Z497027 1994 anthology short story drama extract poetry

    "In this book, more than forty Greek-Australian women have composed, through poems and stories, a migrant tale of hardship, survival and joy: a truly Australian tale, a truly Greek tale, as both countries have given and taken from each other through migration. Each writer contributes, in her own voice and style, a part of this story which begins with the first generation of migrants, who had to endure life away from ‘home’, and is followed by those of their offspring who live in, or between, two worlds and experience the conflicts, as well as the joys, of a dual existence. Contributors range from the unpublished, to those previously published only in Greek, to others who are established names in 'Australian' literature. They are all here side by side, telling their part of the story. The editors of this book have provided a Greek-Australian story, fittingly, in bilingual form."

    Taken from: http://owlpublishing.com.au/re-telling-the-tale.html

         Bundoora : Owl Publishing , 1994     pg. 36-42
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y separately published work icon The Island Antigone Kefala , Sydney : Hale and Iremonger , 1984 Z100322 1984 single work novel

The novel follows Melina Pappas as she pursues her studies at university. Melina was born abroad and raised on the island - described vaguely, but with a resemblance to New Zealand - and thus occupies an in-between space in society which affects how she is perceived. As Catalina Rebus Segura describes, "She is passionate and shows it in her mannerisms and speech. However, islanders are defined as cold and indifferent as their body language is subdued to their detached speech." 

"In The Island, Kefala focuses on perceptions and the consequences of interaction as well as on verbal and non-verbal communication."

Source: "Language and Bilingualism in Antigone Kefala’s Alexia (1995) and The Island (2002)" by Catalina Rebus Segura.
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