Coloniality, Nationality, Modernity: A Postcolonial View on Baltic Cultures Under Soviet Rule

ISBN-13: 9781138487482 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 162 str.

Epp Annus

Opis

This book explores the intersection of Soviet colonial strategies with broader processes of modernity and in their entangled relationship to Baltic national imaginaries. The chapters were originally published in a special issue of the Journal of Baltic Studies.

Spis treści

Introduction: Between arts and politics: A postcolonial view on Baltic cultures of the Soviet era Epp Annus 1. Comparing colonial differences: Baltic literary cultures as agencies of Europe’s internal others Benedikts Kalnačs 2. Postcolonial theory as a means to understand Estonian art history Jaak Kangilaski 3. The Sovietization of Lithuania after WWII: modernization, transculturation, and the lettered city Violeta Davoliūtė 4. Orientalism, otherness, and the Soviet empire: travelogues by Latvian writers of the Soviet period Maija Burima 5. Bourgeoisie as internal orient in the Soviet Lithuanian literature: Roses Are Red by A. Bieliauskas, 1959 Rasa Balockaite 6. Post-colonial folk dancing: reflections on the impact of stage folk dance style on traditional folk dance variation in Soviet and post-Soviet Estonia Sille Kapper 7. Estonian nationalism through the postcolonial lens Piret Peiker 8. Can postcolonial theory help explain Latvian politics of integration? Reflections on contemporary Latvia as a postcolonial society Deniss Hanovs

O autorze

Epp Annus is a lecturer at Ohio State University and a senior researcher with the Estonian Literature Museum. She is the author of Soviet Postcolonial Studies: A View from the Western Borderlands (Routledge, 2018).