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Coloniality, Nationality, Modernity: A Postcolonial View on Baltic Cultures under Soviet Rule book cover

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

Edited By Epp Annus Copyright 2018
172 Pages
by Routledge

172 Pages
by Routledge

172 Pages
by Routledge
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Soviet postcolonial studies is an emerging field of critical inquiry, with its locus of interest in colonial aspects of the Soviet experience in the USSR and beyond. The articles in this collection offer a postcolonial perspective on Baltic societies and cultures – that is, a perspective sensitive to the effects of Soviet colonialism. The colonial situation is typically sustained by the help of... Read more

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

Biography

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).

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