ABSTRACT
This chapter examines a number of literary productions from a variety of theoretical perspectives which is part of a research project. It discusses a number of novels and short stories dealing with the experience of war back home', namely resistance against the Axis Occupation and involvement in the Civil War. Political exiles in Eastern Europe in the aftermath of the Greek Civil War (19469) constitute an interesting research field in which the Greek experience of civil war and its consequences intersects with the East European experience of communist regimes. It is an area which raises issues concerning the identity construction of political exiles, a process involving negotiation with the traumatic experiences of war and defeat as well as with the new experiences in the communist countries. The completely new way of life which the exiles had to face challenged their political and ideological beliefs, their national consciousness and their social and family roles.
