The present dissertation entitled “The political dimension of Katerina Gogou’s poetry” attempts to examine the poet’s literary writing from a political perspective, while raising questions such as: Why is Gogou absent from the literary “circle” of her time? How does the Beat Generation affect her poetry? How does she view the ideological
decline of the left? How does the ideological collapse of her time resemble the fall of the First Postwar Generation? How does she perceive the expansion of capitalism in Greece? Which new ideological horizons are rising? Is anarchy capable of creating a society that is Free, Just and Equal, as envisioned? This thesis attempts to give answers –in no way exhausting– by studying Katerina Gogou’s poems and mostly those that derive from her two first poetry collections, Three Clicks Left (1978) and Ιδιώνυμο (Idionimo) (1980), as in these collections the
“subject was mostly a body of knowledge and a carrier of acts of high political tension”. The criteria followed were the opposition between capitalism and communism/the left as well as the existence of the anarchistic ideology in her poetry.
Democritus University of Thrace
