ABSTRACT
The notion of diaspora is developed in the context of a cosmopolitan society, where the identification of home with the geographical confines of one country and the ideological and emotional framework of one nation is no longer possible. Stratis Tsirkas was a second-generation Greek Egyptian who lived in Egypt until 1963, when he and his family moved to Athens. The Club by the left-wing intelligentsia and Tsirkas's expulsion from the Egyptian branch of the Greek Communist Party, he decided to downplay the narrative experimentations of The Club and return to the socialist pragmatism of Nourendin. Seen in the wider context of post-colonialism, any hints of violence and banishment suggested in the departure of the Greeks from Egypt are clearly smoothed away. At the same time he focuses on the semiotics of the Greek-Egyptian cultural identity, making the circumstantial cosmopolitanism of The Club, which had infuriated critics, redundant.
