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CHAPTER 1 - INTRODUCTION 
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Ματωμένα Χώματα
(Bloodied Earth,1962) by Dido Sotiriou (b. Aydın 1909 - d. 
Athens 2004 ), 
Στου Χατζηφράγκου
(In the Hatzifrangou Quarter, 1963) by Kosmas 
Politis (pen name of Paraskevas Taveloudis, b. Athens but his parents were from 
Ayvali and Mytilini 1888 - d. Athens 1974) and 
Λωξάνδρα
(Loxandra, 1963) by 
Maria Iordanidou (b. Constantinople 1897- d. Athens 1989). All these works 
appeared in 1962-3, forty years after the war and the exchange of populations. The 
tone of the narrative is different from the works of the first period. Apart from the 
theme of the war the authors, apparently overcome by a nostalgia for the lost 
homeland, describe an ideal imaginary place in which Greeks and Turks had an 
existence of harmonious symbiosis. The melancholy of this nostalgia is enhanced by 
the contrast with the future, the uprooting of the refugees and the difficulties of their 
establishment in Greece. There is an undoubted connexion with the political outlook 
of the authors. Both Sotiriou and Politis belonged to the left and were on the losing 
side of the 1946-9 civil war. In Sotiriou’s book, in particular, there is an explicit 
strain of “internationalism” which includes folksy references to the word of Lenin 
somehow reaching rural Anatolia and calling on the toilers to stop fighting the wars 
of their oppressors
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. 
In this phase there is a certain convergence with works that appeared in Turkish by 
authors who were not from Istanbul only, for example 
Çirkince
by Sabahattin Ali (b. 
Eğridere, Gümülcine, present day Komotini 1905 - d. Kırklareli 1948) which 
appeared in 1947
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or 
Fırat Suyu Kan Akıyor Bakasana/Bir Ada Hikâyesi
(Look 
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Mackridge 2004, 236-246 
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Millas 2001, 217 

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