LTReikšminiai žodžiai: Literatūra; Politika ir literatūra; Socialistinis realizmas ir literatūra; Estetika ir literatūra.
ENThe book Between Aesthetics and Politics: Lithuanian Literature of the Soviet Period draws on a variety of methodologies (including postcolonial, sociocritical, sociological, interpretative, feminist, translation theory, historiographic etc.) to present an overview of Lithuanian literature of the Soviet period. The research presented investigates controversial questions around literary process and literary agency; situations involving ambiguous and complicated relations with institutional literary frameworks (official literary method such as Socialist Realism, censorship, the concept of the writer); key literary phenomena that received little attention during the Soviet period (literature of the Stalinist decade, prose versions of the internal monologue) or were studied superficially (Aesopic language); writers whose works and personas played a unique and unequivocal role (Justinas Marcinkevičius); and specific case studies. In examining cultural processes of the Soviet period, the authors of this collection make every effort to avoid dichotomies around resistance against vs. collaboration with the Soviet system, maintaining the position that the structure of the literary field in the Soviet period affected all of its participants in some way. [From the publication]