Hatay, Mete and Bryant, Rebecca (2008) The jasmine scent of Nicosia: of returns, revolutions, and the longing for forbidden pasts. Journal of Modern Greek Studies, 26 (2). pp. 423-449. ISSN 0738-1727
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In the past decade in Cyprus, the jasmine flower has become the symbol of Nicosia, the island’s divided capital, and subsequently of a revolution within the Turkish-Cypriot community. As symbol of Nicosia, the jasmine flower evoked a purer time when the city had not yet been “tainted” by an influx of poor workers from Turkey into areas of the walled city that had been abandoned by Turkish-Cypriots. As such, the flower also came to stand for Turkey’s purported colonization of the island and Turkish-Cypriots’ rebellion against it. And because the jasmine came to represent a city that had once been multicultural and a call for a re-valuing of the local, it was easy enough for the Jasmine Revolution to be translated into a semblance of bicommunalism. But as we show here, rather than a multicultural nostalgia, the nostalgia expressed by the symbol of the jasmine is for a period when Turkish-Cypriots lived in enclaves, a period of deprivation but also of solidarity.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | http://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_moder... |
| Additional Information: | © 2008 The Johns Hopkins University Press |
| Divisions: | European Institute |
| Subjects: | D History General and Old World > DE The Mediterranean Region. The Greco-Roman World |
| Date Deposited: | 24 Sep 2013 11:39 |
| Last Modified: | 17 Sep 2024 16:45 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/53002 |
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