Light Colour Line - Perceiving the Mediterranean: Conflicting Narratives and Ritual Dynamics

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Thomas Dittelbach, Ágnes Sebestyén
Georg Olms Verlag, Feb 1, 2017 - History - 240 pages

Das Licht, die Farbe, die Horizontlinie sind Parameter für unsere Wahrnehmung des Mittelmeers. Wir müssen uns die Frage stellen, ob sich diese Wahrnehmung auch in den Erzählungen, in den Ritualen der „Anderen“, in ihren performativen und mündlichen Traditionen widerspiegelt. Narrative Formen der Vermittlung offenbaren im Vergleich mit der wahrgenommenen Realität Brüche und Widersprüche. Auf verschiedenen Wegen, die vom Mittelalter bis in die Gegenwart führen, versuchen die Autoren zu zeigen, wie eine Verständigung auf allen Seiten des Mittelmeers möglich ist.

The light, the colour, the horizon line are parameters for the perception of the Mediterranean. The key issue is how we can connect all the specific ways of perception which each of us necessarily has of the Mediterranean. All the different convergences need to reflect themselves and reverberate in the narratives, the rituals, the performances and oral traditions of our perception of one another. Perceiving the Mediterranean means to pursue a dialectical process in discovering the otherness of our counterparts at the other edge of the horizon which is not simply an aesthetic line.
Using narrative forms of representation, literary, filmic and photographic media require modes of perceiving the Mediterranean that in comparison with perceived reality reveal fractures and contradictions – conflicting narratives. This book tries to offer different ways, topics and interdisciplinary methods, from medieval to recent times, to drive forward a mutual communication on Mediterranean issues.

 

Contents

Preface
7
Colour Light and Architecture
23
Maria Marcos Cobaleda
47
Herman Bashiron Mendolicchio
63
Iro Katsaridou and Anastasia Kontogiorgi
77
Rituals
103
Pablo VidalGonzález
121
Ela Çil and Ayşe Nur Şenel
149
Bibliography
167
Illustrations
195
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