Sunday, February 22, 2015

Greek Americana: U.S. License Plates in Transliterated Greek and not only...


A multi-semantic geography of the personal, the national, the regional, the everyday, the folk, the popular, the secular and the religious marking Greek difference in U.S. traffic.

Signs of national and regional identity, the double meaning of rural images (moulari), insults, also hurled at bad drivers (ftou sou), the play of secular and religious (Hristo), the marking of personal status or state of things (ftoxia), everyday sayings that could also serve as popular song refrains (xehase to). 

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Many thanks to EB for bringing this to my attention


1 comment:

  1. To add: A public parade of "low culture" in contrast to Greek American narratives of high achievement and lofty ideals

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