Greek American Studies Resource Portal Update – Spring 2014 (Installment 2)

Submitted by Yiorgos Anagnostou

Autobiography–Memoir–Biography

Chrissochoidis Ilias. On the Trails of the American Dream: A Tale of Self-exile - A voyage of no Return (Greek Edition) (Stanford: Brave World, 2011), 122 pp. ISBN 978-0615479330.

The adventures and reflections of a young intellectual as he prepares to emigrate to America.”

Blogs & Resource Portals – a) Blogs

Greek-American Family Notes

http://greekamericanfamilynotes.blogspot.com/

            In reference to Greek Americans in Stockton, CA

Greek American Girl, www.greekamericangirl.com

Irene Archos, the founder of Greekamericangirl.com, has been a journalist, writer, editor and teacher for over two decades.  The idea for the site was spawned after a very stoggy, conservative and male-oriented media outlet killed her weekly column, “On Being a

Greek American” because it was not “politically correct.”  Not discouraged, she compiled her weekly essays into a longer memoir published under the same title.  After getting fed up with pitching story ideas and essays to the narrow clique of male-dominated news organizations, she decided to take matters into her own hands.  Thus, Greekamericangirl.com was born.  The impetus for the site was spawned by the need for a targeted journal who took the needs, issues and accomplishments of women of the Hellenic diaspora seriously.  While Greek Americans and other Diaspora groups have been in the country for centuries, there is as of yet no magazine or other media product that broadcasts the female voice. The Greek media machine amounts to little more than blurbs about which organization or society met and had dinner, gave an award, or cut a “basilopita.” It was hard to find a publication where the real issues that plague our cultural group, especially from a woman’s perspective, were talked about honestly. Additionally, because Greek women are so underplayed in their patriarchal societies, a site which featured their accomplishments and gave them the credit they deserved was crucial. Read more, http://greekamericangirl.com/advertise/

Πού είμαι; Α, ναι... στην Αμερική... (http://poueimai.wordpress.com/)

…Ξεκίνησα το παρόν ιστολόγιο χωρίς σαφή στόχο, για να καταπολεμήσω την απομόνωση που ένιωσα καθώς βρέθηκα ξαφνικά σ’ένα απόλυτα ξένο περιβάλλον, μόνη μου μέσα στο σπίτι για ώρες ατελείωτες, μακριά απ’ τους ανθρώπους και τα μέρη που μέχρι τότε πλαισίωναν τη ζωή μου. Γρήγορα συνειδητοποίησα ότι είχε τη δυνατότητα να μετατραπεί σε διαρκές “θάψιμο” πολιτιστικών χαρακτηριστικών της Αμερικής, εξέλιξη που καθόλου δεν επιθυμούσα. Ταυτόχρονα κατάλαβα ότι θα μπορούσε να είναι μια διέξοδος για όλες τις σκέψεις μου τις σχετικές με τη μεταμοντέρνα εποχή, την κρίση, την εθνική ταυτότητα, τη συλλογική κουλτούρα, τον πολιτιστικό μας χαρακτήρα, σκέψεις που με απασχολούν πολύ και που δεν μπορώ εύκολα να μοιραστώ υπό τις παρούσες συνθήκες. Έτσι, αυτά που διαβάζετε εδώ αποτελούν κάτι ανάμεσα σε πολιτιστικό σχολιασμό, δημόσιο στοχασμό και προσωπική μαρτυρία, καθώς συνοδεύουν την αναζήτησή μου για το τι σημαίνει ή τι θα έπρεπε να σημαίνει να είμαστε Έλληνες σήμερα. Όσο συνεχίζω να γράφω, εύχομαι να βρω,  τόσο εγώ, όσο – γιατί όχι; – ίσως κι εσείς, κάποιες απαντήσεις στα υπαρξιακά ερωτηματικά που δε σταματούν να με προβληματίζουν. Διαβάστε περισσότερα, http://poueimai.wordpress.com/about/

Blogs & Resource Portals – Blog Entries

Anagnostou, Yiorgos. “How Do we Teach Race in Courses on European Americans?” http://immigrations-ethnicities-racial.blogspot.com/2013/07/how-we-teach-race-in-courses-on.html

Anagnostou, Yiorgos. “Zorba Doesn’t Live Here Anymore: The Creation of an American Zorba,” http://immigrations-ethnicities-racial.blogspot.com/2013/08/zorba-doesnt-live-here-any-more.html

Blogs & Resource Portals – b) Resource Portals

Greek American Heritage Society of Philadelphia

http://gahsp.org/

Greek Historical Society of the San Francisco Bay Area

https://www.facebook.com/groups/347180332409/

Growing Up Greek American, 

https://www.facebook.com/GrowingUpGreekAmerican

Growing Up Greek in Astoria, New York https://www.facebook.com/groups/GrowingUpGreekInAstoria/

The Amerikanaki - Greek American humor  https://www.facebook.com/TheAmerikanaki

Diaspora

Βεντούρα, Λίνα & Λάμπρος Μπαλτσιώτης. «Εισαγωγή – Κρατικές πολιτικές για ομοεθνείς μειονότητες και πληθυσμούς της διασποράς: Η σύγκλιση των προσεγγίσεων», στο Λίνα Βεντούρα & Λάμπρος Μπαλτσιώτης (επιμ.), Το Έθνος Πέραν των Συνόρων: «Όμογενειακές» Πολιτικές του Ελληνικού Κράτους. Βιβλιόραμα, (2013): 9–30.

Βόγλη, Ελπίδα [Vogli Elpida]. «Το ‘Ετος Αποδήμου Ελληνισμού’ (1951): Η ελληνική ομογενειακή πολιτική στις απαρχές του Ψυχρού Πολέμου», στο Λίνα Βεντούρα & Λάμπρος Μπαλτσιώτης (επιμ.), Το Έθνος Πέραν των Συνόρων: «Όμογενειακές» Πολιτικές του Ελληνικού Κράτους. Βιβλιόραμα, (2013): 345–372.

Βόγλη, Ελπίδα [Vogli Elpida]. «Η ελληνική πολιτική απέναντι στους απόδημους Έλληνες κατά το πρώτο μισό του 20ού αιώνα», στο M. Rossetto, M. Tsianikas, G. Couvalis  and M. Palaktsoglou (eds), Greek Research in Australia: Proceedings of the Eighth Biennial International Conference of Greek Studies, Flinders University June 2009, Flinders University Department of Languages-Modern Greek: Adelaide, South Australia, (2011): 661–671. (Το άρθρο είναι διαθέσιμο στο διαδίκτυο:

http://dspace.flinders.edu.au/jspui/bitstream/2328/25178/1/Vogli_2009.pdf)

Βόγλη, Ελπίδα [Vogli Elpida]. «Το έθνος και η ελληνική διασπορά στον πολιτικό λόγο του Κωνσταντίνου Τσάτσου», στο Κωνσταντίνος Τσάτσος, φιλόσοφος, συγγραφέας, πολιτικός (Πρακτικά Διεθνούς Επιστημονικού Συνεδρίου, Αθήνα, 6-8. Νοεμβρίου 2009), Γρανάδα-Αθήνα: Κέντρο Βυζαντινών, Νεοελληνικών και Κυπριακών Σπουδών, Εταιρεία Φίλων Κ. και Ι. Τσάτσου (2010): 667–682.

Vogli, Elpida. “The Making of Greece Abroad: Continuity and Change in the Modern Diaspora Politics of a “Historical” Irredentist Homeland”, in Nationalism and Ethnic Politics 17.1 (2011): 14–33.

Vogli, Elpida. “A Greece for Greeks by Descent? Nineteenth-Century Policy on Integrating the Greek Diaspora”, στο Dimitris Tziovas (επιμ.), Greek  Diaspora and Migration since 1700: Society, Politics and Culture, Surrey: Ashgate (2009): 99–110.

Kaloudis, George. “Greeks of the Diaspora: Modernizers or an Obstacle to Progress? ” International Journal on World Peace. Vol. 23.2 (June 2006): 49–70.

Dissertations and Theses

Σωτηροπούλου, Χρυσάνθη, Η Διασπορά στην Ελληνική Κινηματογραφία. Επιδράσεις και επιρροές στη θεματολογική εξέλιξη των ταινιών της περιόδου 1945-1986. Διδακτορική Διατριβή, Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών (ΕΚΠΑ), Σχολή Νομικών, Οικονομικών και Πολιτικών Επιστημών, Τμήμα Πολιτικής Επιστήμης και Δημόσιας Διοίκησης, 1992.

Vournelis, Leonidas V. Living the Crisis: Identities and Materialities in a Transnational Greek Setting. Diss. Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, 2012.

Documentary – a) Documentaries

a) Documentaries

Καρπόζηλος, Κωστής και Κώστας  Βάκκας. [Karpozilos, Kostis and Kostas Vakkas]. Ταξισυνειδησία – Η Άγνωστη Ιστορία του Ελληνοαμερικανικού Ριζοσπασμού. [Greek-American Radicals: the Untold Story]. Idea Films, 2013. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5v-CoXED9w&feature=em-upload_owner (entire documentary w/ english subtitles)

Scotes, Athena, A Last Song to Xenitia http://www.xenitia.net/

Xanthopoulos, Lefteris. “George Papanicolaou Documentary” (2013) (Greek with English subtitles)

c) Documentaries – Reviews

Reviews of Kαρπόζηλος, Κωστής και Κώστας  Βάκκας. [Karpozilos, Kostis and Kostas Vakkas]. [Greek-American Radicals: the Untold Story]. Idea Films, 2013:

Χριστόπουλος, Δημήτρης. 2014. «Την ύφεση την συνηθίζεις διότι έρχεται αργά σαν την αρθρίτιδα». Χρόνος, τεύχος 9, Ιανουάριος [review Greek American Radicals – The Untold Story] http://www.chronosmag.eu/index.php/e-spl-fs-sth-e-g-s-the.html

Despina Lalaki’s review translated into English by Nicholas Levis, “The Predicament of the Greek Diaspora: Economic Crisis, Immigrant Radicalism and Greek-American Ethnic Identity.” Χρόνος, τεύχος 9, Ιανουάριος (2014). http://www.chronosmag.eu/index.php/d-lalaki-the-predicament-of-the-greek-diaspora.html

Gender

Patrona, Theodora. “The Female Ethnic Writer’s Return to the Ancestral Hearth: Greece and Italy Revisited” in Mobile Narratives, eds. Eleftheria Arapoglou, Monika Fodor and Jopi Nymann. London: Routledge (2013): 187–198.

Patrona,Theodora.“Ex-centric Mythic Wanderings in Catherine Temma 

Davidson’s The Priest Fainted (1998)” in Ex-Centric Narratives: Identity, Multivocality and Cross-Culturalism. Eds. Yemenedzi-Malathouni, Rapatzikou, Arapoglou. Bethesda, [Md.]: Αcademica Press, (2012): 233–248.

Greek America – Miscellaneous

Emerging Voices of Greek America. Annamarie Buonocore, Anna Tsiotsias, Georgea Polizos, and Peter Hasiakos.  The AHIF Policy Journal, Vol. 5, Spring 2014.

Patrona, Theodora. “Greek-Americans.” Multicultural America: A Multimedia Encyclopedia. Ed. Carlos Cortez. Los Angeles: Sage (2013): 1000–1003.

Zanetou, Artemis. "The Fulbright Program and the Future of Hellenism in America." The AHIF Policy Journal, Vol. 5, Spring 2014.

Greek American Studies

Anagnostou, Yiorgos. “White Ethnicity: A Reappraisal.” Italian American Review. 3.2 (Summer 2013): 99–128.

Anagnostou, Yiorgos. “Empowering ‘Greek American Studies.’” http://immigrations-ethnicities-racial.blogspot.com/2013/12/empowering-greek-american-studies.html. December 11, 2013.

Anagnostou, Yiorgos. “Modern Greek Studies at the University Level: Challenges and Opportunities.” Modern Greek Studies Association website, http://mgsa.org/ (2013)

Klironomos, Martha. “The Status of Modern Greek Studies in Higher Education: A Case Study on the West Coast of the United States.” Journal of Modern Greek Studies 24.1 (2006): 153–169.

Leontis, Artemis. “Modern Greek Studies at the University Level: Challenges and Opportunities.” The AHIF Policy Journal, Vol. 3, Winter 2011-12.

Leontis, Artemis. “Greek-American Studies are Growing at North American Campuses.” http://www.lsa.umich.edu/UMICH/modgreek/Home/Window%20to%20Greek%20Culture/Modern%20Greek%20Forum/MGF_Leontis_GreekStudies.pdf

History – a) Community and Regional Histories

Doulis, Tom. A Surge to the Sea, “the Greeks in Oregon,” 1977, Jack Lockie & Associates.

Doulis, Tom. Landmarks of Our Past: “The First 75 Years of the Greek Orthodox Community of Oregon,” Gann Publishing Company, 1983.

Doulis, Tom. A Century of Celebration, “Faith, History and Community, A 100 Year Commemorative Album, 1907-2007,” 2007, Jack Lockie & Associates.

Author’s statement: “These articles were written and published locally as my donations to this past of the Greek Orthodox community of Holy Trinity of Portland, Oregon and are enhanced by historic photographs, at a time when this was unusual and involved a great deal of risk to get the valuable photographs turned over by the families at an age when reproduction of photographs was not simple and safe.”

Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church San Francisco

Early Years: The history of the Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church is linked to the history of the city of San Francisco. The Orthodox faith has long had a presence in San Francisco with some records dating to 1857. Prior to the establishment of their own parish, Greeks worshipped and Greek priests often ministered to the Greek Orthodox faithful at the only Orthodox church in San Francisco, the Russian Orthodox church , founded in 1868. It wasn’t until 1892 when the Hellenic Mutual Benevolent Society was formed that initiatives to establish a Greek Orthodox church, organize community events and respond to tragic events occurring in Greece got underway. Read more, http://orthodoxwiki.org/Holy_Trinity_Greek_Orthodox_Church_San_Francisco

History – c) History and Historiography Scholarship

Moskos, Peter C., and Charles C. Moskos. Greek Americans: Struggle and Success. (with an introduction by Michael Dukakis). Third Edition. Transaction Publishers. 2014.

Παπαδόπουλος, Γιάννης. «Κράτος, σύλλογοι, Εκκλησία: Απόπειρες ελέγχου των ελλήνων μεταναστών στις ΗΠΑ στις αρχές του 20ού αιώνα», στο Λίνα Βεντούρα & Λάμπρος Μπαλτσιώτης (επιμ.), Το Έθνος Πέραν των Συνόρων: «Όμογενειακές» Πολιτικές του Ελληνικού Κράτους. Βιβλιόραμα, (2013): 219–252.

Identity & Immigration

Georgakas, Dan. “On Being Greek in America: Identities.” 

Journal of Modern Hellenism, No. 29 (Winter 2012-2013): 45–65.

Language

Hantzopoulos, M. 2005. “English Only? Greek Language as Currency in Queens, New York City.” In Languages, Communities, and Education,  Z. Zakharia and T. Arnstein eds. 3–8. New York: Society for International Education Teachers College, Columbia University.

Literature &Poetry – a) Fiction

Doulis, Tom. Path for our Valor, Simon and Schuster, 1963.

Gus Damianos, one of three protagonists in the pre-Kennedy Special Forces on military maneuvers.

Doulis, Tom. The Quarries of Sicily. Crown. 1969.  

An American translator of an elderly Greek writer during the years of the military Junta as he translates a short novel that is a warning to the United States about its adventure in Vietnam.

Doulis, Tom. The Open Hearth. Xlibris, 2000. Unagented.

The first generation of a Greek family (the Stratons) as they confront the ethnic confusion and privations of the steel industry and unionism in Western Pennsylvania.

Doulis, Tom. City of Brotherly Love. Xlibris, 2008. Unagented.

The second and third generations of the Greek family (the Stratons) as they encounter the politically and racially changed years of post World War Two Philadelphia.

Zervanos, Jim. 2009. Love Park. Brule, WI: Cable Publishing.

In his search for identity and manhood, Peter, the son of a Greek Orthodox priest, discovers a secret that can tear his family apart.

Literature & Poetry – c) Poetry

Alexiou, Nicholas. Astoria: Exile People Places. Boston, Massachusetts: Somerset Hall Press, 2013.

A bilingual collection of poetry in Greek and English about Greeks in America, particularly in the Astoria section of New York.

Αναγνώστου, Γιώργος. Λόγοι χ Αμερικής. Ενδυμίων, 2014. http://issuu.com/basilislaliotis/docs/anagnostou

Illuminations: An International Magazine of Contemporary Writing. Issue 29 (2013).

A special theme issue on Greece, past and present, real and imagined. The volume features poetry, photography, creative nonfiction, works in translation, and vignettes chronicling current life in Greece in the wake of riots and economic sanctions. The issue also looks backward to myth examining the persistence of myth in modern Greek life. Featured writers include Paticia Nelson, Lili Bita, Robert Zaller, Kelly Cherry, Nick Trakakis, James Doyle, Adrienne Kalfopoulou, and many other diasporic writers interested in exploring Greece and Greek heritage.

http://illuminations.cofc.edu/current-issue/index.php

Mason, David. Ludlow (A Verse–Novel). Los Angeles: Red Hen Press, 2007.

“Mason’s poetry explores a wide range of subjects, including family, relationships, the outdoors, travel, history, and the American West. Adept in traditional forms, Ludlow uses blank verse to tell the story of the 1914 Ludlow massacre—in which miners and their families were killed by the Colorado National Guard. Brighde Mullins, reviewing Ludlow in the Dark Horse, called the book a “cinematic contemplation in poetry” in which Mason examines the lives of real and invented characters, the Colorado terrain, and the immigrant experience.

Mason’s prose includes a memoir about Greece, News from the Village: Aegean Friends (2010), and a collection of essays, The Poetry of Life and the Life of Poetry (1999). He has co-edited the anthologies of poetry Rebel Angels: 25 Poets of the New Formalism (1996), Twentieth Century American Poetry (2004), and Western Wind: An Introduction to Poetry (2005), as well as the essay collection Twentieth Century American Poetics: Poets on the Art of Poetry (2003)” [Source, http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/david-mason]

Samaras, Nicholas. American Psalm, World Psalm. Ashland Poetry Press, 2014. http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/9780912592763/american-psalm-world-psalm.aspx?rf=1

Χουλιάρας, Γιώργος. Λεξικό Αναμνήσεων. Μελάνι 2013.

“Το ‘Λεξικό αναμνήσεων’ του Γιώργου Χουλιάρα συνιστά αλφαβητικό μυθιστόρημα της ζωής ενός συγγραφέα... και διαβάζεται με κάθε τρόπο που επιτρέπουν ή επιβάλλουν οι τεχνολογίες της ανάγνωσης. 

Το "Λεξικό αναμνήσεων"... παρετυμολογεί τις εν λόγω περιστάσεις... συνδυάζει προβλέψεις περί διασποράς και αποκαλύπτει τις περιπετειώδεις συνέπειες των γάμων ρομαντισμού και κλασικισμού.

Το "Λεξικό" συνεπάγεται αλφαβητάριο για νεκρούς και ζωντανούς, που εκλιπαρούν... οπισθογραφούν... εκτυφλώνονται ... και απασφαλίζουν αλγορίθμους της πυροτεχνουργικής ιστορίας της γλώσσας μας….” [Source, http://www.biblionet.gr/book/192573/Χουλιάρας,_Γιώργος,_1951-_,_ποιητής/Λεξικό_αναμνήσεων]

Literature & Poetry – d) Poetry reviews

Μπασκόζος, Γιάννης Ν. 2013. «Νίκος Αλεξίου: Ενας Πλακιώτης Μανχατανάς.» Ο Αναγνώστης. 11/27. Review of Astoria: Exile People Places by Nicholas Alexiou (http://www.oanagnostis.gr/νίκος-αλεξίου-ένας-πλακιώτης-μανχατα/)

Literature & Poetry – e) Literature and Poetry Scholarship

Klironomos, Martha. “‘Uncertain Histories Shared or Alone’: Memory in Postmodern Diasporic Writing.” In Studia in Honorem Professoris Jacques Bouchard. ['Festschrift in Honor of Prof. Jacques Bouchard.'] Ed. Dorina M. Magarin. Editura Etnous: Brasov, Romania. Pp. 91–110 (2013).

Music and Song – Performance

League, Panayiotis (Paddy). “Living the Dance in Tarpon Springs: Music and Movement in a Greek–American Community.” Forum Folkloristika: East European Folklife Center. Issue 1 (Spring 2012).

Online, http://www.eefc.org/folkloristika_1-3.shtml

Politics and Ethnicity

Georgakas, Dan. “Election Year Possibilities for Greek American Activism.” The AHIF Policy Journal, Vol. 3, Winter 2011-12.

Sociology

Argeros, Grigoris. "A Look at Americans of Greek Ancestry," The National Herald, June 29-July 5, 2013.

Using recent data from the Census Bureau, this article presents a brief socioeconomic and demographic overview of one segment within the Greek-American group: those of Greek ancestry. http://www.thenationalherald.com/article/59767

Argeros, Grigoris."Brief Analysis of Greek Immigrants in the U.S. Compared to U.S. Immigrants Overall." The National Herald, August 24-30, 2013.

Using up-to-date individual-level census data from the 2011 American Community Survey (ACS) we briefly examine the socioeconomic status and family/household characteristics of Greek immigrants compared to the overall immigrant population in the U.S. http://www.thenationalherald.com/article/60456 

Greek American Studies Resource Portal Update – Spring 2014 (Installment I)

Submitted by Elaine Thomopoulos

Autobiography–Memoir–Biography

a) Autobiographies–Memoir–Biographies

Dukakis, Olympia. Ask Me Again Tomorrow: A Life in Progress. HarperCollins Publishers. New York, 2003.

Karalis, Eftihios. Ripples of Fate. PublishAmerica, 2003

After his widowed mother was killed during the 1953 earthquake in Kefalonia, five-year-old Karalis was sent to an orphanage in Patras. Through a Greek newspaper in America, his cousin Makis, who lived in the United States, saw his name. Makis alerted his father Aris, Karalis's paternal uncle. Karalis had never met this uncle who lived in Kefalonia. He spent the next four years with Aris and his family, and then when Aris and his family left for America, he lived with another relative in Greece. Throughout the book, Karalis recalls lyrics which made an impact on him, like the following lyrics he heard on the battery-powered radio of the postman: “Life is a simple lie, just a faint breath of air. Like a flower one day, we'll be snapped off a stem.” At age 14, he was reunited with his uncle Aris in America. With courage, hard work, and the help and encouragement of his family, Karalis did well, earning a Ph.D. in electrical engineering. In 1980, Karalis married Irene Petros in Washington, D.C. When their son Petros was born, he writes that he felt “I had a family again, exactly 28 years after the deadly quake of 1953.” After the birth of their twins, Pavlos and Aphrodite Marietta, he notes, “It was then, deep in my heart, that I felt an inner peace as I sensed my mother's spirit finally at rest. The ripples of fate had transformed into rays of hope.” (adapted from a book review written by Elaine Thomopoulos and published in The National Herald.)

Mavrovitis, Jason C. Out of the Balkans. Sonoma, CA: Jason Mavroritis, 2003. Can be accessed at Preservation of American Hellenic Heritage, http://www.pahh.com/mavrovitis/index.html

Out of the Balkans is the story of the author’s maternal and paternal ancestors, starting with a historical background of their origins. It describes the forces that led them to leave their homelands in a time of war and uncertainty to cross the Atlantic and risk the unknown. Finally, it celebrates their struggles and successes in the United States.

Walsh, Efthalia Makris. Beloved Sister: Biography of a Greek-American Family, Letters From the Homeland. Tegea Press: Bethesda, Md., 1998.

Bibliographies [new category]

Frangos, Steve. "Suggested Readings about the Greek American Experience." Books Special Edition, The National Herald, December 2, 2006, pp. 22, 23. http://photo.ekirikas.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/books_2006_2.pdf  

An annotated bibliography of a selection of fiction and non-fiction books that the author recommends. 

Language

Economou, Steven G. Grenglish: A Lexicon (2^nd edition). Steven G. Economou, 2001.

This self-published book, complete with drawings, is a humorous look at the language developed by those who immigrated to America at the turn of the century. As the author explains: “If they did not know the proper Greek word for something, and also did not know, or feel comfortable with the English word for it …no problem. They simply first phonetically transformed the English work to suit their speech patterns and then adopted it as their own. Each “Grenglish” word is accompanied by the author’s poignant remembrance of an event that took place in Chicago between 1925-1960.

Literature and Poetry – a) Fiction

Davidson, Catherine Temma. The Priest Fainted. NY: Henry Holt, 1998.  

The novel is informed by the personal experience of the author, a third-generation Greek American. The narrator journeys to Greece, the birthplace of her grandmother, in passionate pursuit of her mother's and grandmother's pasts. In the process she discovers insights about herself and her own identity.

Kokonis, Nicholas. Arcadia, My Arcadia. Deerfield, IL: St. Basil’s Publishers, 2004.

Mavrovitis, Jason. Remember Us. Sonoma, CA: Golden Fleece, 2007.

This fictionalized account of the life of Mavrovitis’s maternal grandparents and their family spans the years from 1886 to 1936. Here is the description on the book jacket: “At a time of sweeping nationalism in the Balkans in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the characters in Remember Us survive pogroms, ethnic cleansing, and guerrilla warfare. Escaping war they leave homes and loved ones to forge new lives in America. But in the New World, the immigrants find that they must rely on their culture and enduring family ties in the face of loss of place, poverty, death, and scandal.”

Literature and Poetry – f) Children’s Literature [new category]

Aliki. Marianthe’s Story. New York. Greenwillow Books, 1998.

Marianthe's Story, which includes illustrations, consists of two books in one: “Painted Words” and “Spoken Memories.” It’s a children’s book.

Although the words Greece or America are not used in the stories, the author herself was born to Greek parents and did not know the language when she began school in Philadelphia.

Book One, Painted Words focuses on Marianthe’s adjustment to life in the new land and the difficulties she had in school since she did not know any of her classmates and was not able to communicate with them in the English language.  Her teacher encourages her to use her paintings to tell her story.   Through her paintings, and eventually through words, she relates her feelings and experiences.  

    

In Book Two: Spoken Memories, Marianthe tells her classmates the story of her life in the close-knit rural village where she grew up before coming to the new land, using both spoken work and paintings. She describes the struggles through famine, war, and separation from the father.  She explains: "People were leaving our poor village. They were going to a new land, hoping for a better life. First the father left, to work and save until their families could join them." Marianthe, her twin brothers, and her mother join the father in the new land. Marianthe mentions the "sad goodbyes," including "the people and the village we loved" and "the trees, the rocks, the birds.” However, the emphasis of the story of Marianthe is not on the sad goodbyes but on the new beginnings. (By Elaine Thomopoulos)

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To be added to entries that are already on the portal:

A description of Greek-American Pioneer Women of Illinois, edited by Elaine Thomopoulos 

The book chronicles the struggles and triumphs, the pathos and joy of five women who emigrated to the United States from 1885 to 1923: Georgia Bitzis Pooley, Presbytera Stella Christoulakis Petrakis, Theano Papazoglou Margaris, and Venette Tomaras Askounes Ashford. With over 125 historic photos and documents which span the years 1885 to 2000, this book showcases the life stories of immigrant pioneer women, their families, friends, and the emerging Greek-American community of Illinois.

A description of a book already cited in the memoir section: 100 Years: From Greece to Chicago and Back by Nicholas Thomopoulos.

Growing up in Chicago during the 1930s, `40s and `50s was a life rich in tradition, family and memories. Nick Thomopoulos in 100 Years chronicles the vibrant life of the neighborhood surrounding the St. George Greek Orthodox Church.  He tells of the tragic death of his father and the difficulties and joys his immigrant mother faced in raising five young children in an emerging metropolis unlike Zakynthos, Greece. Because of the Great Depression, World War II, the Greek Civil War and the hardships in Greece, Marie received only an occasional letter from her siblings. In 1962, Marie, with Nick, returned to Greece 42 years after she left. Three of her five siblings did not know she was coming, and her husband’s lone sister did not know the family was even alive.  The story describes the excitement of reuniting with the family.

The MGSA Greek American Resources Archive (update)

To visit the Resources Archive, http://mgsa.org/Resources/gkam.html 
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Acropolis of America – Greek America in photographs and visual culture (with an emphasis on the community of Lowell, Mass.) (facebook)

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Acropolis-of-America/252770321447431
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Hoover Institute – ELAS Documents in the United States.

Essays in the media based on the Archive

Χρυσοχοϊδης, Ηλίας, “Ένας στρατηγός της Βέρμαχτ αφηγείται… [A Wermacht general reminisces],” To VIMA, 9 March 2014.
www.tovima.gr/politics/article/?aid=574913

Χρυσοχοϊδης, Ηλίας, “Έγγραφα του ΕΛΑΣ στην Αμερική [ELAS documents in America],” Kathimerini, 9 March 2014.
www.kathimerini.gr/756858/article/epikairothta/ellada/eggrafa-toy-elas-sthn-amerikh
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Library of Congress

Mitropoulos, Dimitris, Unpublished correspondence

Χρυσοχοϊδης, Ηλίας, “ΔΗΜΗΤΡΗΣ ΜΗΤΡΟΠΟΥΛΟΣ: Μία συμφωνική, ένα αφεντικό και δύο μνηστήρες”, Το Βήμα της Κυριακής, 9 January 2011, B2: 6–7.
http://www.tovima.gr/culture/article/?aid=376955
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Princeton University

Tēlemachos Alaveras Papers and Nea Poreia Archives, 1889-2010
39.3 linear ft. (93 archival boxes, 3 half-size archival boxes, 1 oversize flat box)
Finding aid: http://findingaids.princeton.edu/collections/C1408
In addition, there are over 600 titles of rare books (first editions/inscribed/annotated) from the Library of Telemachos Alaveras
Gift of the Program in Hellenic Studies, with the support of the Stanley J. Seeger Hellenic Fund

Antōnēs Dekavalles papers, 1935-2008.
12 linear ft. (30 archival boxes)
Finding aid: http://findingaids.princeton.edu/collections/C0833
In addition, there are over 500 titles of rare books (first editions/inscribed/annotated) from the Library Antones Dekavalles
Gift of Antones and Kalliope Dekavalles to the Program in Hellenic Studies for the Princeton University library

Kaiē Tsitselē papers, 1898-2001.
7.3 linear ft. (15 archival boxes, 1 half archival box, 1 flat box)
Finding aid: http://findingaids.princeton.edu/collections/C0801
In addition, there are over 100 titles of rare books (first editions/inscribed/annotated) from the Library of Kaie Tsitsele
Gift of Kay Cicellis and Lila Cicellis to the Program in Hellenic Studies for the Princeton University library

George Lianis papers, 1964-2009
1.4 linear ft. (1 archival box, 1 flat box)
Finding aid: http://findingaids.princeton.edu/collections/C1415
Gift of Judith Fruchter-Lianis to the Program in Hellenic Studies for the Princeton University Library

Access to these collections is via the University Library, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections: http://www.princeton.edu/~rbsc/
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Stanford University

Nicolas Astrinidis (1921–2010)
http://www.stanford.edu/~ichriss/Astrinidis.htm
Romania-born Greek composer and pianist

Book (Greek music / Greek Diaspora)
Ilias Chrissochoidis, Nicolas Astrinidis: Life - Works catalog (Greek edition) (private publication, 2012), 114 pp.

From prewar Romania to the battlefields of Libya, and from postwar Paris to the four corners of the earth as a concert pianist, Nicolas Astrinidis led the life of a Greek cosmopolitan before settling in Thessaloniki, the city that became both his muse and his cell.

Ηλίας Χρυσοχοϊδης, “Το δράμα στο έργο του Νίκου Αστρινίδη: Εισαγωγικές παρατηρήσεις,” Twentieth-Century Greek Music Creation in Lyric Drama and other Representative Arts, ed. George Vlastos (Athens: Friends of Music, 2009), 252–256.
http://www.academia.edu/249355/

“From the garden of Diaspora to the cell of repatriation: Hellenism in the life and works of Nikos Astrinidis,” Aspects of Hellenism in Music (conference)
http://www.academia.edu/2192960/

Spyros P. Skouras: Archival Material, Resources, Books, Reviews, Articles (submitted by Ilias Chrissochoidis)

Research web portals:
Spyros P. Skouras (1893–1971)
http://www.stanford.edu/~ichriss/Skouras.htm
Primary sources on his life and achievements

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc6R0tVgRyg
Commemorative video celebrating the 120th anniversary of Skouras' birth

Spyros P. Skouras (1893-1971)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uNx_4a-5Qk
Commemorative video celebrating the 120th anniversary of Skouras' birth

Books (film history):

Ilias Chrissochoidis (editor), CinemaScope: Selected Documents from the Spyros P. Skouras Archive (Stanford: Brave World, 2013), 214 pp. ISBN 978-0615898803.

CinemaScope (1953), the process that established the widescreen format in motion pictures, was more than a technical innovation. It breathed life into the film industry, saved Twentieth Century-Fox from liquidation, and inducted its president Spyros P. Skouras into the pantheon of American visionaries. For the first time an intimate story of the second technological revolution in film history emerges from the papers of Spyros P. Skouras. Ranging from correspondence with Churchill and Eisenhower to company memos and financial reports, this collection is an indispensable source for the historian and affords a rare glimpse into Hollywood's corporate performance at its best.

Ilias Chrissochoidis (editor), The Cleopatra Files: Selected Documents from the Spyros P. Skouras Archive (Stanford: Brave World, 2013), 206 pp. ISBN 978-0615829197.

The most extravagant film production in history, "Cleopatra" (1963) broke multiple records in expenditure, shooting length, footage, and artistic indulgence. It marked the birth of star-driven film making and ushered in the age of blockbuster movies. Swerving between tragic accidents and shocking unprofessionalism, it soon became a noose around the neck of a historic Hollywood studio. For the first time the story of the production becomes available through original documents in the archive of Spyros P. Skouras, the man who transformed "Cleopatra" from an artistic vision into a global phenomenon.

Book (Greek Diaspora / film history):
Ilias Chrissochoidis (compiler/editor), Spyros P. Skouras, Memoirs (1893–1953) (Stanford: Brave World, 2013), 162 pp. ISBN 978-0615769493.

Spyros P. Skouras (1893-1971) was the most influential Greek immigrant in American history and one of America’s preeminent citizens during the Cold War period. In an astonishing sixty-year career, he shaped two industries (film and shipping), turned Twentieth Century-Fox into a global film leader, saved Hollywood by introducing CinemaScope, masterminded Century City in Los Angeles, and, not least, helped save millions of Greeks from starvation and disease during World War II. For the first time his story is being told in his own words and in full detail. Coinciding with Skouras' 120th birth anniversary, this book is a valuable contribution to American and Greek Diaspora historiography that will inspire younger generations to pursue the intertwined ideals of business excellence and public service.

Reviews and publicity:

Kelsey Geiser, “Stanford scholar sheds light on Greek immigrant’s rags-to-riches story,” Stanford News Service, May 23, 2013.
http://news.stanford.edu/news/2013/may/greek-skouras-archives-052113.html

Kelly Fields, “Ilias Chrissochoidis’ book, Spyros P. Skouras, Memoirs (1893–1953),” Stanford University Libraries News, August 27, 2013.
http://library.stanford.edu/news/2013/08/ilias-chrissochoidis-book-spyros-p-skouras-memoirs-1893-1953

Λαμπρινή Κουζέλη, "Σπύρος Σκούρας: Ο έλληνας πρωτοπόρος του Χόλιγουντ," Το Βήμα της Κυριακής, 10 Μαρτίου 2013.
http://www.tovima.gr/books-ideas/article/?aid=501967

Kathy Tzilivakis, "Twentieth Century motion picture mogul Spyros P. Skouras' early years revealed in newly-published memoir," The Pappas Post, March 22, 2013.
http://www.pappaspost.com/view-diaspora/-/dcontent/97649

Σπύρος Στάβερης, "Spyros Skouras, 20th Century Fox," www.lifo.gr, 16 Αυγούστου 2013.
http://www.lifo.gr/team/sansimera/40761

Χρυσοχοϊδης, Ηλίας, “Ο μεγάλος αγνοημένος ευεργέτης του έθνους: Η προσφορά του Σπύρου Παναγιώτη Σκούρα από το τιμόνι της θρυλικής Fox,” Καθημερινή, 2 June 2013.
http://news.kathimerini.gr/4dcgi/_w_articles_civ_2_02/06/2013_522282

Χρυσοχοϊδης, Ηλίας, “Ο επισιτισμός της Ελλάδας στην Κατοχή: Στοιχεία από το αρχείο του Σπύρου Σκούρα,” Καθημερινή, 18 December 2011, p. 27.
http://news.kathimerini.gr/4dcgi/_w_articles_ell_2_18/12/2011_466566