In this paper I will argue that through a complex network of individual and collective memories the protagonist emerges as a medium of ethnic memory. In a compelling combination of a first- and third-person omniscient narration, this family saga of three generations of Greek immigrants from Asia Minor to the United States challenges not only the framework of the novel, but also the constructions of remembering and forgetting. In terms of memory the protagonist goes to the extreme: Claiming to remember his life from the moment of his conception on, Cal/Callie even goes as far as narrating grandparents’ memories. “I was born twice”, states the narrator of the novel Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides.
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