Revisiting postcolonial studies and the Baltics
ENAfter a lengthy period of ignoring postcolonial studies / postcolonial theory as one of the many possible intellectual tools of analysing these societies, postcolonialism finally found its way to Eastern Europe and the Baltics. First being denied, being ignored and/or marginalized later, during the two recent decades postcolonialism has finally entered local academic discourses in the Baltic societies despite the many challenges it has faced and most probably will have to meet in the future. Having originated within the circles of literary scholars (and still mostly ignored within the discipline of history), it is winning more and more territories in various disciplinary and sub-disciplinary fields, like folkloristics. The article examines how postcolonialism entered Baltic studies and why its development was somewhat complicated. [From the publication]
- Baltic postcolonialism / edited by Violeta Kelertas. Amsterdam ; Rodopi, 2006. vii, 464 p.
- Beyond nostalgia: notes on history and memory of the Soviet era in Lithuanian postcolonial fiction / Almantas Samalavičius. History, memory and nostalgia in literature and culture / edited by Regina Rudaitytė. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018. P. 14-24.
- Perceptions of the self and the other in Lithuanian postcolonial fiction / Violeta Kelertas. Baltic postcolonialism / edited by Violeta Kelertas. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2006. p. [251]-269.
