ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the spaces inhabited by the Greek-American travellers which represent the non-place entry points for consideration, including harbours and hotels as well as temporary and extended abodes in the village or city. Though grounded in the discourses of Hellenism, this tradition nevertheless dictates its own ideological interpretation of the Greek landscape, projecting a particular trajectory for the casual traveller replete with visits to ancient and pastoral sites. Yet travel to Greece is not merely something casual for the Greek-American subject in Nicholas Samaras's poem, which chronicles the descendant's return to the ancestral home. Samaras's poem strikes at the core of how the search for home' in a new strand of Greek-American writing expresses an essential paradox: the desire to find a primordial place of origin to ground one's sense of identity, but it is a longing which remains relatively unfulfilled.
