ABSTRACT
This chapter investigates the various tendencies exhibited in the themes of contemporary Greek fiction in greater detail. These tendencies reflect preoccupations with the private and the personal, travel as an indication of cosmopolitanism and ideological flexibility, and the revival of an interest in the past. Contemporary Greek literature appears to be participating actively in the current process by which cultural borders are being abolished throughout the world. Mary Mike investigates the construction of identity in the age of globalization. In the fictional texts she discusses, place is the factor that both connects and alienates. The phenomenon of globalization has given rise to numerous debates and arguments about its true nature as well as its implications and prospects. European culture has been subjected because of globalization or the non-western elements that this culture has absorbed during the globalizing process.
