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The Poetics of Manhood: Contest and Identity in a Cretan Mountain Village
The Poetics of Manhood Contest and Identity in a Cretan Mountain Village
Author: Michael Herzfeld
"The Cretan mountain-dwellers are in particular famous for their sustained resistance to Turkish rule and then to German occupation. Their values, well-expressed in the motto of the Cretan writer Kazantzakis--`I hope for nothing; I fear nothing; I am free'--made them heroes at times when such qualities were positively endorsed in a Greece fighti...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780691094106
ISBN-10: 0691094101
Publication Date: 7/1985
Pages: 313
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Publisher: Princeton University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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