European University Institute Library

Coloniality, nationality, modernity, a postcolonial view on Baltic cultures under Soviet rule, edited by Epp Annus

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Includes bibliographical references and index

illustrations

index present

non fiction

Coloniality, nationality, modernity

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10448528771013530675

edited by Epp Annus

a postcolonial view on Baltic cultures under Soviet rule

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 colonial discourses which carry the pathos of progress and civilization. In Soviet colonial discourse, the pathos of progress is presented in terms of communist value systems, which developed certain principles of the European Enlightenment and rearticulated them through Soviet ideology. --, Provided by publisher

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