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Baltic postcolonialism /
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 groundbreaki...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; New York, NY :
Rodopi,
2006.
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| Colección: | On the boundary of two worlds ;
6. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Baltic postcolonialism and its critics / 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.