Voices of the lost children of Greece : oral histories of post-war international adoption / edited by Mary Cardaras.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cardaras, Mary, 1955- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Adoption--Greece--History--20th century.

Adoption.

Children and war--Greece--History--20th century.

Children and war.

Adopted children--Greece--Social conditions--20th century.

Adopted children.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 192 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London : Anthem Press, 2023.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

<i>Voices of the Lost Children of Greece</i> is a collection of essays from Greek-born adoptees in the 1950s after two consecutive wars that ravaged the country. Never before has this group of adoptees come together to write their stories and share their closely held feelings. While many of the adoptees have similar experiences and while they may share some common thoughts about their adoptions, their stories are vastly different, some harrowing, others remarkable. The collection will illustrate the impact of adoption itself over years, no matter if children were displaced from their parents and country as infants or as youngsters. The book will shed light on adoption from many disciplinary angles, including sociological, psychological and anthropological. It will also put these adoptions into a larger historical context. The book is further enhanced by Greek-born adoptee, academic, poet and writer, Dr Andrew Mossin, who writes the Foreword; by Dr Gonda Van Steen, a preeminent modern Greek scholar, who pens the first chapter about the history of such adoptions; and in the final chapter, by Dr Eirini Papadaki, who has written extensively about the women of Greece and adoption, to bring readers a current assessment of adoption practices in Greece today.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Contents

Foreword by Antonios Sakkas/Andrew Mossinxi

Introduction

1. Adoption's Unfinished Business

2. Full Circles and Beyond

3. What's in a Name?

4. The Second Beginning

5. Questions of the Heart

6. The Secret

7. A Coffin Full of Secrets

8. The Final Goodbye

9. Unsettled Soul

10. That's All I Know So Far

11. Given, Taken, Never Received

12. An Adventure in Identity

13. Broken Lines: A Story to Tell

14. An Unexpected Journey

15. Time Run Out

16. Today and Afterward

Acknowledgments

About the Editor

Resource List.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 17 Oct 2023).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781839983719

183998371X

9781839983726

1839983728

OCLC:

1357014829