Baltic postcolonialism /
Baltic postcolonialism /
edited by Violeta Kelertas.
- Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2006.
- 1 online resource (vi, 464 pages)
- On the boundary of two worlds ; 6 .
- On the boundary of two worlds ; 6. .
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction: Baltic postcolonialism and its critics / Is the post- in postcolonial the post- in post-Soviet?: towards a global postcolonial critique / Fusions of discourse: postcolonial/postmodern horizons in Baltic culture / A Soviet experience of our own: comprehension and the surrounding silence / Postcolonial change: power, Peru and Estonian literature / Nazi and Soviet dysphemism and euphemism in Latvian / Toward a postcolonial perspective on the Baltic States / Learning to curse in Russian: mimicry in Siberian exile / Estonia's time and monumental time / The sieve and the honeycomb: features of contemporary Lithuanian cultural time and space / Perceptions of the self and the other in Lithuanian postcolonial fiction / Viivi Luik's "The beauty of history": aestheticized violence and the postcolonial in the contemporary Estonian novel / Searching for national allegories in Lithuanian prose: Saulius Tomas Kondrotas's "The slow birth of nation" / Dalia Cidzikaitė -- Estonia and pain: Jaan Kross's "The czar's madman" / Postcolonial subjectivity in Latvia: some signs in literature / Labyrinths of meaning in Aleksandrs Pelēcis' "Siberia book" and Agate Nesaule's "Woman in Amber": a postmodern/postcolonial reading / Interstitial histories: Ene Mihkelson's "Labor of naming" / Lithuanian prose and decolonization: rediscovery of the body / Conflicted consciousness: Jaan Kaplinski and the legacy of intra-European postcolonialism in Estonia / Foot-loose and fancy-free: the postcolonial Lithuanian encounters Europe / Violeta Kelertas -- David Chioni Moore -- Karl E. Jirgens -- Vytautas Rubavičius -- Piret Peiker -- Andrejs Veisbergs -- Kārlis Račevskis -- Jūra Avižienis -- Maire Jaanus -- Arūnas Sverdiolas -- Violeta Kelertas -- Tiina Kirss -- Maire Jaanus -- Inta Ezergailis -- Karl E. Jirgens -- Tiina Kirss -- Almantas Samalavičius -- Thomas Salumets -- Violeta Kelertas.
Emerging from the ruins of the former Soviet Union, the literature of the Baltic states of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia is analyzed from the fruitful perspective of postcolonialism, a theoretical approach whose application to former second-world countries is in its initial stages. This groundbreaking volume brings scholars working in the West together with those who were previously muffled behind the Iron Curtain. They gauge the impact of colonization on the culture of the Baltic states and demonstrate the relevance of concepts first elaborated by a wide range of critics from Frantz Fanon to.
1423788982 (electronic bk.) 9781423788980 (electronic bk.) 904201959X 9789042019591 9789401202770 940120277X
Postcolonialism--Baltic States.
Nationalism and literature--History and criticism.--Baltic States
Postcolonialism in literature.
Decolonization in literature.
Estonian literature--History and criticism.
Lithuanian literature--History and criticism.
Latvian literature--History and criticism.
Baltic literature--History and criticism.
Postcolonialisme--Pays baltes.
Nationalisme et littérature--Histoire et critique.--Pays baltes
Postcolonialisme dans la littérature.
Décolonisation dans la littérature.
Littérature estonienne--Histoire et critique.
Littérature lituanienne--Histoire et critique.
Littérature lettone--Histoire et critique.
Littérature balte--Histoire et critique.
TRAVEL--Special Interest--Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM--General.
Baltic literature.
Decolonization in literature.
Estonian literature.
Latvian literature.
Lithuanian literature.
Nationalism and literature.
Postcolonialism.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Baltic States--History and criticism.--Literatures
Pays baltes--Histoire et critique.--Littératures
Baltic States.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Literatures.
PG8101 / .B35 2006eb
809.89479
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction: Baltic postcolonialism and its critics / Is the post- in postcolonial the post- in post-Soviet?: towards a global postcolonial critique / Fusions of discourse: postcolonial/postmodern horizons in Baltic culture / A Soviet experience of our own: comprehension and the surrounding silence / Postcolonial change: power, Peru and Estonian literature / Nazi and Soviet dysphemism and euphemism in Latvian / Toward a postcolonial perspective on the Baltic States / Learning to curse in Russian: mimicry in Siberian exile / Estonia's time and monumental time / The sieve and the honeycomb: features of contemporary Lithuanian cultural time and space / Perceptions of the self and the other in Lithuanian postcolonial fiction / Viivi Luik's "The beauty of history": aestheticized violence and the postcolonial in the contemporary Estonian novel / Searching for national allegories in Lithuanian prose: Saulius Tomas Kondrotas's "The slow birth of nation" / Dalia Cidzikaitė -- Estonia and pain: Jaan Kross's "The czar's madman" / Postcolonial subjectivity in Latvia: some signs in literature / Labyrinths of meaning in Aleksandrs Pelēcis' "Siberia book" and Agate Nesaule's "Woman in Amber": a postmodern/postcolonial reading / Interstitial histories: Ene Mihkelson's "Labor of naming" / Lithuanian prose and decolonization: rediscovery of the body / Conflicted consciousness: Jaan Kaplinski and the legacy of intra-European postcolonialism in Estonia / Foot-loose and fancy-free: the postcolonial Lithuanian encounters Europe / Violeta Kelertas -- David Chioni Moore -- Karl E. Jirgens -- Vytautas Rubavičius -- Piret Peiker -- Andrejs Veisbergs -- Kārlis Račevskis -- Jūra Avižienis -- Maire Jaanus -- Arūnas Sverdiolas -- Violeta Kelertas -- Tiina Kirss -- Maire Jaanus -- Inta Ezergailis -- Karl E. Jirgens -- Tiina Kirss -- Almantas Samalavičius -- Thomas Salumets -- Violeta Kelertas.
Emerging from the ruins of the former Soviet Union, the literature of the Baltic states of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia is analyzed from the fruitful perspective of postcolonialism, a theoretical approach whose application to former second-world countries is in its initial stages. This groundbreaking volume brings scholars working in the West together with those who were previously muffled behind the Iron Curtain. They gauge the impact of colonization on the culture of the Baltic states and demonstrate the relevance of concepts first elaborated by a wide range of critics from Frantz Fanon to.
1423788982 (electronic bk.) 9781423788980 (electronic bk.) 904201959X 9789042019591 9789401202770 940120277X
Postcolonialism--Baltic States.
Nationalism and literature--History and criticism.--Baltic States
Postcolonialism in literature.
Decolonization in literature.
Estonian literature--History and criticism.
Lithuanian literature--History and criticism.
Latvian literature--History and criticism.
Baltic literature--History and criticism.
Postcolonialisme--Pays baltes.
Nationalisme et littérature--Histoire et critique.--Pays baltes
Postcolonialisme dans la littérature.
Décolonisation dans la littérature.
Littérature estonienne--Histoire et critique.
Littérature lituanienne--Histoire et critique.
Littérature lettone--Histoire et critique.
Littérature balte--Histoire et critique.
TRAVEL--Special Interest--Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM--General.
Baltic literature.
Decolonization in literature.
Estonian literature.
Latvian literature.
Lithuanian literature.
Nationalism and literature.
Postcolonialism.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Baltic States--History and criticism.--Literatures
Pays baltes--Histoire et critique.--Littératures
Baltic States.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Literatures.
PG8101 / .B35 2006eb
809.89479