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Handwritten newspapers from a commune of political exiles on one of the Aegean islands came to light 50 years after their first appearance and a survey of their contents has begun. There are more than 40 items, with seven differently titled newspapers catering to a variety of readers, from ordinary communards to political theorists and members of regionally-based sub-groups. A detailed discussion of particular issues of newspapers using theoretical insights from the works of Goffman and Foucault helps place the collection in its historical context.
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Introduction
In the summer of 1994, an archive of handwritten newspapers was discovered from a commune of political exiles living on the Greek Cycladic island of Anafi during the dictatorship of General Ioannis Metaxas (1936-1941) and the Axis Occupation (1941-1943). The newspapers were found during cleaning-up operations after a summer flash-flood damaged the contents of three underground floors of the headquarters of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) in the Athenian suburb of Perissos. The newspapers were among archives of the KKE which, according to informants, had been taken out of the country at the start of the Greek Civil War (in 1943) and brought back after 1981. Illustrations for an article published in December 1994 in the Communist Party's daily newspaper, ... (Radical), show some of these newspapers and the text of the article describes them in more detail (Rizospastis 1994). The article is illustrated with color photographs of the front pages of seven newspapers, and with illustrations of several inside pages, giving five different newspaper titles (mastheads). I was able to examine these handwritten newspapers, as well as many others (some in original and some in photocopied form) in the Perissos building. Since then, a large and profusely illustrated volume has appeared describing them and many others from places of prison and exile (Servos 2003), and another has set such newspapers in the context of ..."... ("the 'stone' universities"), the educational classes set up by prisoners and exiles (Kamarinou 2005).
I am here concerned only with those newspapers from the exiles' commune on Anafi (see Kenna 2001; 2004), a corpus which dates from November 1938 to 22 June 1943, and appears to contain as many as fifty items, from at...