The Greek Vampire Goes East: Vampirism, Irredentism, and Language Politics in a Karamanli-Turkish Translation of Aristotelis Valaoritis’ “Thanasis Vayas”

In the book you hold in your hands, William Stroebel is investigating the relationship between the vampire’s image and expansionist nationalism through Aristotelis Valaoritis’ poem -who was one of the ideologue of the Great Idea, national poet and politician- in which Thanasis Vayas -one of the commandants of Tepedelenli Ali Pasa, who slaughtered the village Gardik- turns into a vampire, as well as the translation of this poem in Karamanli Turkish.
The study that also includes the Turkish translation of the poem, focuses on the mobilisation of vampirism as a metaphor about nationalism.