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Record Id:13959079 (Australian Library Collections) permalink
Author:Enizlis, Demetra.
Title:Interview with Demetra Enizlis, lecturer in Modern Greek, La Trobe University [sound recording] / interviewer, Gwenda Davey.
Published:1998.
Description:2 digital audio tapes.
Series:Greek-Australian oral history and folklife project
Summary:Enzilis speaks of her now deceased parents as farmers in Northern Greece, how she visited her brothers here over 1973-1975, her education in Greece leading to training as a computer programmer, had no English when she migrated to Australia in 1975 to live with her brother, having acquired some English how she began studying at Melbourne University in 1976 and then did a Diploma of Education in 1980 working at the university as a casual tutor in Modern Greek, later taught at community schools and TAFE finishing her Master of Arts in 1996 and starting her doctorate in 1998, now assistant lecturer at La Trobe, married in 1981 to a carpenter, Konstantinos, describes the wedding, discusses at length the practice of Greek culture in her Australian life such as the traditional roles of men and women in marriage and how much they now overlap, how she must raise her son, her duties as a housekeeper (nikokira), how much impact the Greek Catholic church impacts on her life as she is a religious person, when she attends church, how she burns a candle on Sundays, the importance of women undertaking the cooking, how her husband born in Lesbos prefers cuisine similar to Turkish, some of her recipes, why marriage is the most important event for a woman.
Notes:Not yet preserved.
Detailed summary available (8 p.)
Recorded on Feb. 17 & 24, 1998.
Subjects:Enizlis, Demetra -- Interviews.
Greeks -- Australia -- Social history.
Multiculturalism -- Australia.
Greeks -- Australia -- Cultural assimilation.
Greek Australians -- Social life and customs.
Greek Australians -- Interviews.
Language teachers -- Victoria -- Interviews.
College teachers -- Victoria -- Interviews.
Other Authors:Davey, Gwenda, 1932-
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Libraries that have this item:National Library of Australia. National Library of Australia (ANL) (1869891) ORAL TRC 3607/44-45

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