Illes de confinament i exili a Grècia: les illes de la vergonya al segle XX

Abstract

During the 20th century, almost a hundred islands in the Aegean Sea have been places of confinement or prisons for political dissidents. An island can be a place to confine somebody due to a contagious disease, as happened with Spinalonga, as well as a place to imprison people who are inconvenient to a dictatorial regime. The islands of Anafi, Leros, Makronissos, Ai Stratis, Ikaria and Gyaros are particularly relevant as indicators of the shameful activity of political repression. Many Greek intellectuals and politicians were secluded in some of these islands. Mikis Theodorakis and Iannis Ritsos composed poems related to imprisonment and exile.