«μια ατέλειωτη αρμαθιά αντικλείδια / για ν' ανοίξουμε την πόρτα της Ποίησης»: A FEMINIST CULTURAL CRITIQUE OF THE UNIT DEDICATED TO G. PAVLOPOULOS IN THE SCHOOLBOOK KNL III

In Greece, the State holds the monopoly on the production of textbooks, and only one textbook is prescribed for each class. This paper provides a feminist cultural critique of the didactic unit of the contemporary literature schoolbook Κείμενα Νεοελληνικής Λογοτεχνίας. Τεύχος Γ’ (1945– 2000) (Texts of Modern Greek Literature. Volume III (1945–2000)), in which the poet Giorgis Pavlopoulos is presented. Through a close reading of the poem Το άγαλμα και ο τεχνίτης (The statue and the artisan) and the paratext that goes with it, the paper aims not only to demonstrate that the aforementioned didactic unit reproduces rape culture, but also to provide an analysis of a literary representation of rape in the Modern Greek framework.