Cyprus and the politics of memory : history, community and conflict / edited by Rebecca Bryant and Yiannis Papadakis.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The island of Cyprus has been bitterly divided for more than four decades. One of the most divisive elements of the Cyprus conflict is the writing of its history, a history called on by both communities to justify and explain their own notions of justice. While for Greek Cypriots the history of Cyprus begins with ancient Greece, for the Turkish Cypriot community the history of the island begins with the Ottoman conquest of 1571. The singular narratives both sides often employ to tell the story of the island are, as this volume argues, a means of continuing the battle which has torn the island.

Introduction: modalities of time, history and memory in ethnonational conflicts / Rebecca Bryant and Yiannis Papadakis -- A critical comparision of Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot official historiographies (1940s to present) / Mete Hatay and Yiannis Papadakis -- Beyoond the history hextbook debate: official histories in Greek Cypriot geogrpahy and civics curricula / Stavroula Philippou -- Hegemony, permissible public discourse and lower class political culture / Andreas Panayiotou -- The 'leftovers' of history: reconsidering the 'unofficial' history of the left in Cyprus and the Cypriot dispora / Evropi Chatzipanagiotidou -- Senses of belonging and 'belongings' and making 'home' away from home / Aybil Goker -- Imagining homelands: poetics and performance among Cypriot Armenians / Susan Pattie -- The fractures of a struggle: remembering and forgetting Erenkoy / Rebecca Bryant -- Correcting the record: memory, minority insecurity and admissible evidence / Peter Loizos -- On the need to belong to a non-Cypriot history / Mehmet Ratip -- Truth, memory and the Cypriot journey towards a new past / Catia Galatariotou.