When Remembrance Becomes 'Picturesque'

The article analyzes the alteration of the memory of the 1974 Cypriot displacement over time. The author, referring to an article from 1993, points out how the experience of displacement, vivid and immediate for the first generation, gradually becomes more distant and 'picturesque' for younger generations. The language and sense of injustice that characterized the speech of those who lived through the war are losing their intensity and being met with irony or indifference. The transition from 'living memory' to historical narrative changes the way the traumatic experience of displacement is perceived and experienced by society.