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BalticPostcolonialism

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EmergingfromtheruinsoftheformerSoviet
Addtocart
Union,theliteratureoftheBalticstatesof
Lithuania,LatviaandEstoniaisanalyzedfromthe VolumeEditor:
fruitfulperspectiveofpostcolonialism,atheoretical
approachwhoseapplicationtoformersecond VioletaKelertas
worldcountriesisinitsinitialstages.This Subject:
groundbreakingvolumebringsscholarsworkingin
LiteratureandCultural
theWesttogetherwiththosewhowerepreviously
StudiesPostcolonial
muffledbehindtheIronCurtain.Theygaugethe Literature&Culture
impactofcolonizationonthecultureoftheBaltic
LiteratureandCultural
statesanddemonstratetherelevanceofconcepts
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ISBN13:
9789042019591
PublicationDate:
January2006
CopyrightYear:
2006
Format:
Hardback
PublicationType:
Book
Pages,Illustr.:
vii,464pp.
Imprint:
Brill|Rodopi
Language:
English
MainSeries:
OntheBoundaryofTwo
Worlds
ISSN:
15707121
Volume:6
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BiographicalnoteReviewsTableofcontents

Biographicalnote

VioletaKelertasisAssociateProfessorandEndowedChairofLithuanianStudiesattheUniversity
ofIllinoisatChicago.ShereceivedherPh.D.incomparativeliteratureattheUniversityofWisconsin

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Madison.SheispastpresidentoftheAssociationfortheAdvancementofBalticStudies(1996
1998)andrecipientofgrantsfromtheInternationalResearchandExchangesBoard(19861987)
andtheFulbrightCommission(1994)forresearchandlecturinginLithuania.Sheistheauthorof
numerousarticlesandreviewsmainlyonSovietLithuanianliteratureandcriticismandhas
propagatedfeminism,postmodernismandpostcolonialismasrichapproachestoLithuanianprose
fiction.Hervolumeoftranslatedshortstories,ComeintoMyTime:LithuaniainProseFiction
(UniversityofIllinoisPress,1992)bearsherlengthyintroduction.Wellknownasatranslator,she
alsoeditsseveraljournalsintheUnitedStates,LituanusandMetmenys,andservesonseveral
editorialboardsinLithuania.

Reviews

"Theliteraryandculturalanalysisinmanyofthecontributionsissophisticatedandshouldbeofgreat
interesttostudentsofBalticliteraturesandculturesinparticular,andpostsovietidentityingeneral."
in:SlavicandEastEuropeanJournal52/1(Spring2008)
'BalticPostcolonialisminitsscopeisanimportantcontributiontothinkingnotonlyabouttheBaltics,
butalsoaboutallofEasternEuropeandtheformerSovietUnion.Itisaninvigoratingadditionto
postcolonialstudiesandshouldengagescholarswithinandoutsideofthedisciplinesofliterary
criticism,philosophy,andculturalstudiesinfurtherdialogue."in:ReviewbyNeringaKlumbytein
EastEuropeanPoliticsandSocieties21/2(May2007)
"aninvaluablecontributiontothedevelopmentofpostcolonialtheoryandatreasureforanyonewho
seekstoknowmoreabouttheculture,history,andliteratureoftheBaltics."in:KulturosBarai,
2006/7
"AthoroughandpenetratinginvestigationthewidespreadreluctancetoconceiveoftheSoviet
Unionasacolonialempireiscompellinglyundercut.innovativecontent,whichwillsurelyanimate
debateinarangeofacademicspheres.[has]potentialtoshednewlightnotonlyonpostcolonial
theorybutonthissideofitsapplication."in:LithuanianPapers20/2006

Tableofcontents

Acknowledgments
VioletaKELERTAS:Introduction:BalticPostcolonialismanditsCritics
DavidChioniMOORE:IsthePostinPostcolonialthePostinPostSoviet?TowardsaGlobal
PostcolonialCritique
KarlE.JIRGENS:FusionsofDiscourse:Postcolonial/PostmodernHorizonsinBalticCulture
VytautasRUBAVIIUS:ASovietExperienceofOurOwn:ComprehensionandtheSurrounding
Silence
PiretPEIKER:PostcolonialChange:Power,PeruandEstonianLiterature
AndrejsVEISBERGS:NaziandSovietDysphemismandEuphemisminLatvian
KrlisRAEVSKIS:TowardaPostcolonialPerspectiveontheBalticStates
JraAVIIENIS:LearningtoCurseinRussian:MimicryinSiberianExile
MaireJAANUS:EstoniasTimeandMonumentalTime
ArnasSVERDIOLAS:TheSieveandtheHoneycomb:FeaturesofContemporaryLithuanian
CulturalTimeandSpace
VioletaKELERTAS:PerceptionsoftheSelfandtheOtherinLithuanianPostcolonialFiction
TiinaKIRSS:ViiviLuiksTheBeautyofHistory:AestheticizedViolenceandthePostcolonialinthe
ContemporaryEstonianNovel
DaliaCIDZIKAIT:SearchingforNationalAllegoriesinLithuanianProse:SauliusTomasKondrotass
TheSlowBirthofNation
MaireJAANUS:EstoniaandPain:JaanKrosssTheCzarsMadman
IntaEZERGAILIS:PostcolonialSubjectivityinLatvia:SomeSignsinLiterature
KarlE.JIRGENS:LabyrinthsofMeaninginAleksandrsPelcisSiberiaBookandAgateNesaules
WomaninAmber:APostmodern/PostcolonialReading
TiinaKIRSS:InterstitialHistories:EneMihkelsonsLaborofNaming
AlmantasSAMALAVIIUS:LithuanianProseandDecolonization:RediscoveryoftheBody
ThomasSALUMETS:ConflictedConsciousness:JaanKaplinskiandtheLegacyofIntraEuropean
PostcolonialisminEstonia
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