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Title:

Baltic postcolonialism / edited by Violeta Kelertas.

Publisher:

Rodopi,

Copyright Date:

2006

Description:

vi, 464 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Postcolonialism--Baltic States.
Nationalism and literature--Baltic States--History and criticism.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Decolonization in literature.
Estonian literature--History and criticism.
Lithuanian literature--History and criticism.
Latvian literature--History and criticism.
Baltic literature--History and criticism.
Baltic States--Literatures--History and criticism.

Other Authors:

Kelertas, Violeta, 1942-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:

Foot-loose and fancy-free: the postcolonial Lithuanian encounters Europe / Violeta Kelertas. Is the post- in postcolonial the post- in post-Soviet?: towards a global postcolonial critique / David Chioni Moore -- Fusions of discourse: postcolonial/postmodern horizons in Baltic culture / Karl E. Jirgens -- A Soviet experience of our own: comprehension and the surrounding silence / Vytautas Rubavičius -- Postcolonial change: power, Peru and Estonian literature / Piret Peiker -- Nazi and Soviet dysphemism and euphemism in Latvian / Andrejs Veisbergs -- Toward a postcolonial perspective on the Baltic States / Kārlis Račevskis -- Learning to curse in Russian: mimicry in Siberian exile / Jūra Avižienis -- Estonia's time and monumental time / Maire Jaanus -- The sieve and the honeycomb: features of contemporary Lithuanian cultural time and space / Arūnas Sverdiolas -- Perceptions of the self and the other in Lithuanian postcolonial fiction / Violeta Kelertas -- Viivi Luik's "The beauty of history": aestheticized violence and the postcolonial in the contemporary Estonian novel / Tiina Kirss -- Searching for national allegories in Lithuanian prose: Saulius Tomas Kondrotas's "The slow birth of nation" / Dalia Cidzikaitė -- Estonia and pain: Jaan Kross's "The czar's madman" / Maire Jaanus -- Postcolonial subjectivity in Latvia: some signs in literature / Inta Ezergailis -- Labyrinths of meaning in Aleksandrs Pelēcis' "Siberia book" and Agate Nesaule's "Woman in Amber": a postmodern/postcolonial reading / Karl E. Jirgens -- Interstitial histories: Ene Mihkelson's "Labor of naming" / Tiina Kirss -- Lithuanian prose and decolonization: rediscovery of the body / Almantas Samalavičius -- Conflicted consciousness: Jaan Kaplinski and the legacy of intra-European postcolonialism in Estonia / Thomas Salumets -- Foot-loose and fancy-free: the postcolonial Lithuanian encounters Europe / Violeta Kelertas.

Series:

On the boundary of two worlds ; 6

ISBN:

9789042019591
904201959X

OCLC:

(OCoLC)70167391

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)