ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the embodied female subject, politicised in its persecution, as gender referent emerging in Arseni's and Staveri's writings to observe how this renders the texts diverse reflective platforms of left-wing memory produced during the Metapolitefsi. It contextualises political persecution from the Greek Civil War to the Junta, as a means of historically enacting the ideological division between the Left as abject political identity and complementary notions of canonical national belonging. The analysis of Staveri's and Arseni's texts is divided in three parts. The first part engages with incidents which threaten the loss of the sense of self or others' to look at how these articulate conflicting identities, spatial limits and temporal rhythms of incarceration. The second part concentrates on performances of subverting and intimating the spaces of exile and detention to make possible their inhabitation. The third part observes manners of narrative emotional evocation and produces distinctive temporal textures of recollection.
