Baltic postcolonialism / edited by Violeta Kelertas.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction: Baltic postcolonialism and its critics / Violeta Kelertas -- Is the post- in postcolonial the post- in post-Soviet?: towards a global postcolonial critique / David Chioni Moore -- Fusions of discourse: postcolonial/postmodern horizons in Baltic culture / Karl E. Jirgens -- A Soviet experience of our own: comprehension and the surrounding silence / Vytautas Rubavičius -- Postcolonial change: power, Peru and Estonian literature / Piret Peiker -- Nazi and Soviet dysphemism and euphemism in Latvian / Andrejs Veisbergs -- Toward a postcolonial perspective on the Baltic States / Kārlis Račevskis -- Learning to curse in Russian: mimicry in Siberian exile / Jūra Avižienis -- Estonia's time and monumental time / Maire Jaanus -- The sieve and the honeycomb: features of contemporary Lithuanian cultural time and space / Arūnas Sverdiolas -- Perceptions of the self and the other in Lithuanian postcolonial fiction / Violeta Kelertas -- Viivi Luik's "The beauty of history": aestheticized violence and the postcolonial in the contemporary Estonian novel / Tiina Kirss -- 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" / Maire Jaanus -- Postcolonial subjectivity in Latvia: some signs in literature / Inta Ezergailis -- Labyrinths of meaning in Aleksandrs Pelēcis' "Siberia book" and Agate Nesaule's "Woman in Amber": a postmodern/postcolonial reading / Karl E. Jirgens -- Interstitial histories: Ene Mihkelson's "Labor of naming" / Tiina Kirss -- Lithuanian prose and decolonization: rediscovery of the body / Almantas Samalavičius -- Conflicted consciousness: Jaan Kaplinski and the legacy of intra-European postcolonialism in Estonia / Thomas Salumets -- Foot-loose and fancy-free: the postcolonial Lithuanian encounters Europe / Violeta Kelertas.

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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.

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