Baltic Postcolonial Narratives
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Author |
: Almantas Samalavičius |
Publisher |
: Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 126 |
Release |
: 2023-07-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781527519466 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1527519465 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (66 Downloads) |
Synopsis Baltic Postcolonial Narratives by : Almantas Samalavičius
This book offers an in-depth discussion of how postcolonialism entered the Baltic cultural and literary domain and what difficulties it had, and often still has, to face while encountering local and international cultural and literary discourses. Initially viewed as entirely alien to the Baltic (as well as Eastern European) academic milieu, postcolonial studies have recently started to overcome previous academic prejudices and take shape in this part of the world. This study provides timely insights into Lithuanian prose writing and analyzes some of Lithuania’s best postcolonial literary texts. The author examines novels written during the last decade of the Soviet period as well as some more recent writings produced in the post-Soviet era. The book will be useful to cultural historians and literary scholars interested in the past and present of Eastern European and Baltic cultures and societies.
Author |
: Almantas Samalavičius |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2023-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1527519023 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781527519022 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (23 Downloads) |
Synopsis Baltic Postcolonial Narratives by : Almantas Samalavičius
This book offers an in-depth discussion of how postcolonialism entered the Baltic cultural and literary domain and what difficulties it had, and often still has, to face while encountering local and international cultural and literary discourses. Initially viewed as entirely alien to the Baltic (as well as Eastern European) academic milieu, postcolonial studies have recently started to overcome previous academic prejudices and take shape in this part of the world. This study provides timely insights into Lithuanian prose writing and analyzes some of Lithuania's best postcolonial literary texts. The author examines novels written during the last decade of the Soviet period as well as some more recent writings produced in the post-Soviet era. The book will be useful to cultural historians and literary scholars interested in the past and present of Eastern European and Baltic cultures and societies.
Author |
: Violeta Kelertas |
Publisher |
: Rodopi |
Total Pages |
: 473 |
Release |
: 2006 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789042019591 |
ISBN-13 |
: 904201959X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (91 Downloads) |
Synopsis Baltic Postcolonialism by : 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 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.
Author |
: |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Total Pages |
: 405 |
Release |
: 2015-07-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789004303850 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9004303855 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (50 Downloads) |
Synopsis Postcolonial Europe? Essays on Post-Communist Literatures and Cultures by :
This collective monograph analyzes post-1989 Central and Eastern Europe through the paradigm of postcoloniality. Based on the assumption that both Western and Soviet imperialism emerged from European modernity, the book is a contribution to the development of a global postcolonial discourse based on a more extensive and nuanced geohistorical comparativism. It suggests that the inclusion of East-Central Europe in European identity might help resolve postcolonialism’s difficulties in coming to terms with both postcolonial and neo-colonial dimensions of contemporary Europe. Analyzing post-communist identity reconstructions under the impact of transformative political, economic and cultural experiences such as changes in perception of time and space (landscapes, cityscapes), migration and displacement, collective memory and trauma, objectifying gaze, cultural self-colonization, and language as a form of power, the book facilitates a mutually productive dialogue between postcolonialism and post-communism. Together the studies map the rich terrain of contemporary East-Central European creative writing and visual art, the latter highlighted through accompanying illustrations.
Author |
: |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Total Pages |
: 472 |
Release |
: 2006-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789401202770 |
ISBN-13 |
: 940120277X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (70 Downloads) |
Synopsis Baltic Postcolonialism by :
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.
Author |
: |
Publisher |
: Cambria Press |
Total Pages |
: 334 |
Release |
: |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781621968498 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1621968499 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (98 Downloads) |
Synopsis Postcolonial Issues in Australian Literature by :
Author |
: Epp Annus |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 320 |
Release |
: 2017-09-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781351850568 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1351850563 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (68 Downloads) |
Synopsis Soviet Postcolonial Studies by : Epp Annus
Postcolonial studies is a well-established academic field, rich in theory, but it is based mostly on postcolonial experiences in former West European colonial empires. This book takes a different approach, considering postcolonial theory in relation to the former Soviet bloc. It both applies existing postcolonial theory to this different setting, and also uses the experiences of former Soviet bloc countries to refine and advance theory. Drawing on a wide range of sources, and presenting insights and material of relevance to scholars in a wide range of subjects, the book explores topics such as Soviet colonality as co-constituted with Soviet modernity, the affective structure of identity-creation in national and imperial subjects, and the way in which cultural imaginaries and everyday materialities were formative of Soviet everyday experience.
Author |
: Monika Albrecht |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 217 |
Release |
: 2019-06-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781000007824 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1000007820 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (24 Downloads) |
Synopsis Postcolonialism Cross-Examined by : Monika Albrecht
Taking a strikingly interdisciplinary and global approach, Postcolonialism Cross-Examined reflects on the current status of postcolonial studies and attempts to break through traditional boundaries, creating a truly comparative and genuinely global phenomenon. Drawing together the field of mainstream postcolonial studies with post-Soviet postcolonial studies and studies of the late Ottoman Empire, the contributors in this volume question many of the concepts and assumptions we have become accustomed to in postcolonial studies, creating a fresh new version of the field. The volume calls the merits of the field into question, investigating how postcolonial studies may have perpetuated and normalized colonialism as an issue exclusive to Western colonial and imperial powers. The volume is the first to open a dialogue between three different areas of postcolonial scholarship that previously developed independently from one another: • the wide field of postcolonial studies working on European colonialism, • the growing field of post-Soviet postcolonial/post-imperial studies, • the still fledgling field of post-Ottoman postcolonial/post-imperial studies, supported by sideways glances at the multidirectional conditions of interaction in East Africa and the East and West Indies. Postcolonialism Cross-Examined looks at topics such as humanism, nationalism, multiculturalism, nostalgia, and the Anthropocene in order to piece together a new, broader vision for postcolonial studies in the twenty-first century. By including territories other than those covered by the postcolonial mainstream, the book strives to reframe the “postcolonial” as a genuinely global phenomenon and develop multidirectional postcolonial perspectives.
Author |
: Benedikts Kalnacs |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 238 |
Release |
: 2015-12-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 3849811476 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9783849811471 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (76 Downloads) |
Synopsis 20th Century Baltic Drama by : Benedikts Kalnacs
Author |
: Madina Tlostanova |
Publisher |
: Duke University Press |
Total Pages |
: 154 |
Release |
: 2018-06-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780822371632 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0822371634 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (32 Downloads) |
Synopsis What Does It Mean to Be Post-Soviet? by : Madina Tlostanova
In What Does It Mean to Be Post-Soviet? Madina Tlostanova traces how contemporary post-Soviet art mediates this human condition. Observing how the concept of the happy future—which was at the core of the project of Soviet modernity—has lapsed from the post-Soviet imagination, Tlostanova shows how the possible way out of such a sense of futurelessness lies in the engagement with activist art. She interviews artists, art collectives, and writers such as Estonian artist Liina Siib, Uzbek artist Vyacheslav Akhunov, and Azerbaijani writer Afanassy Mamedov who frame the post-Soviet condition through the experience and expression of community, space, temporality, gender, and negotiating the demands of the state and the market. In foregrounding the unfolding aesthesis and activism in the post-Soviet space, Tlostanova emphasizes the important role that decolonial art plays in providing the foundation upon which to build new modes of thought and a decolonial future.