Baltic Postcolonialism. için kapak resmi
Baltic Postcolonialism.
Başlık:
Baltic Postcolonialism.
Yazar:
Kelertas, Violeta.
ISBN:
9789401202770
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Fiziksel Tanımlama:
1 online resource (473 pages)
Seri:
On the Boundary of Two Worlds: Identity, Freedom, and Moral Imagination in the Baltics, 6 ; v.v. 5

On the Boundary of Two Worlds: Identity, Freedom, and Moral Imagination in the Baltics, 6
İçerik:
Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Baltic Postcolonialism and its Critics -- Notes -- Is the Post-in Postcolonial the Post-in Post-Soviet? Towards a Global Postcolonial Critique -- Notes -- Fusions of Discourse: Postcolonial/Postmodern Horizons in Baltic Culture -- Notes -- A Soviet Experience of Our Own: Comprehension and the Surrounding Silence -- Notes -- Postcolonial Change: Power, Peru and Estonian Literature -- Notes -- Nazi and Soviet Dysphemism and Euphemism in Latvian -- Notes -- Toward a Postcolonial Perspective on the Baltic States -- Notes -- Learning to Curse in Russian: Mimicry in Siberian Exile -- Notes -- Estonia's Time and Monumental Time -- Notes -- The Sieve and the Honeycomb: Features of Contemporary Lithuanian Cultural Time and Space -- Notes -- Perceptions of the Self and the Other in Lithuanian Postcolonial Fiction -- Notes -- Viivi Luik's The Beauty of History: Aestheticized Violence and the Postcolonial in the Contemporary Estonian Novel -- Notes -- Searching for National Allegories in Lithuanian Prose: Saulius Tomas Kondrotas's "The Slow Birth of Nation" -- Notes -- Estonia and Pain: Jaan Kross's The Czar's Madman -- Notes -- Postcolonial Subjectivity in Latvia: Some Signs in Literature -- Notes -- Labyrinths of Meaning in Aleksandrs Pelēcis' Siberia Book and Agate Nesaule's Woman in Amber: A Postmodern/Postcolonial Reading -- Notes -- Interstitial Histories: Ene Mihkelson's Labor of Naming -- Notes -- Lithuanian Prose and Decolonization: Rediscovery of the Body -- Notes -- Conflicted Consciousness: Jaan Kaplinski and the Legacy of Intra-European Postcolonialism in Estonia -- Notes -- Foot-Loose and Fancy-Free: The Postcolonial Lithuanian Encounters Europe -- Notes -- Authors.
Özet:
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 Homi Bhabha. Examining literary texts and the situation of the intellectual reveals Baltic concerns with identity and integrity, the rewriting of previously blotted out or distorted history, and a search for meaning in societies struggling to establish their place in the world after decades - and perhaps millennia - of oppression. The volume dips into the late Tsarist period, then goes more deeply into Soviet deportations to the Gulag, while the main focus is on works of the turning-point in the late 1980s and 1990s. Postcolonial concepts like mimicry, subjectivity and the Other provide a new discourse that yields fresh insights into the colonized countries' culture and their poignant attempts to fight, to adapt and to survive. This book will be of interest to literary critics, Baltic scholars, historians and political scientists of Eastern Europe, linguists, anthropologists, psychologists, sociologists, working in the area of postcommunism and anyone interested in learning more about these ancient and vibrant cultures.
Notlar:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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