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Baltic Literature and Russian Imperialism
Series: - National Cultivation of Culture, Volume: 33
With Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine reviving imperial rhetoric, Baltic Literature and Russian Imperialism explores how literature has long resisted domination. Twenty scholars uncover how Latvian, Lithuanian, and Estonian writers responded to Tsarist, Soviet, and post-Soviet forms of Russian power. From censored novels and forced Russification to suppressed memory and cultural survival, this book traces how literature exposes injustice, preserves national identity, and challenges the myths of liberation. Drawing on rare archival sources and regional postcolonial approaches, this timely volume reveals why the cultural fight for freedom, waged with words, is as urgent now as ever.
Contributors are: Madara Āriņa, Eva Eglāja-Kristsone, Anna Freiberga, Deniss Hanovs, Aušra Jurgutienė, Narius Kairys, Benedikts Kalnačs, Ieva Kalniņa, Zita Kārkla, Laurynas Kudijanovas, Laura Laurušaitė, Mārtiņš Mintaurs, Donata Mitaitė, Jānis Oga, Dalia Pauliukevičiūtė, Aare Pilv, Ivars Šteinbergs, Jüri Talvet, Valdis Tēraudkalns, and Brigita Valantiejienė.
Contributors are: Madara Āriņa, Eva Eglāja-Kristsone, Anna Freiberga, Deniss Hanovs, Aušra Jurgutienė, Narius Kairys, Benedikts Kalnačs, Ieva Kalniņa, Zita Kārkla, Laurynas Kudijanovas, Laura Laurušaitė, Mārtiņš Mintaurs, Donata Mitaitė, Jānis Oga, Dalia Pauliukevičiūtė, Aare Pilv, Ivars Šteinbergs, Jüri Talvet, Valdis Tēraudkalns, and Brigita Valantiejienė.
Aušra Jurgutienė, Ph.D. (1998), Vytautas Magnus University in Lithuania, is a senior researcher at the Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore in Vilnius. She has published three monographs in Lithuanian, the latest being Dekonstrukcinių skaitymų užrašai [Notes on Deconstructive Readings] (Vilnius: Lietuvių literatūros ir tautosakos institutas, 2023), and edited several academic books on literary theory, including XX amžiaus literatūros teorijos [20th Century Literary Theory], Vol. 4 (Vilnius: Lietuvių literatūros ir tautosakos institutas, 2006 – 2011) and The Literary Field under Communist Rule (Boston: ASP, 2018).
Eva Eglāja-Kristsone, Ph.D. (2007), University of Latvia, is Director and Leading Researcher at the Institute of Literature, Folklore and Art, University of Latvia. She is the author of Dzelzsgriezēji. Latvijas un Rietumu trimdas rakstnieku kontakti [Iron Cutters: Cultural Contacts between Soviet Latvian and Latvian Exile Writers] (Riga: LU LFMI, 2013, 2016), compiler and editor of Baltic Belles: The Dedalus Book of Latvian Women’s Literature (Dedalus, 2022), and general editor of the forthcoming Handbook of Latvian Literature (Brill). Her research interests include Baltic literature, Soviet and Cold War cultural history, women’s writing, autobiographical studies, and digital humanities.
Eva Eglāja-Kristsone, Ph.D. (2007), University of Latvia, is Director and Leading Researcher at the Institute of Literature, Folklore and Art, University of Latvia. She is the author of Dzelzsgriezēji. Latvijas un Rietumu trimdas rakstnieku kontakti [Iron Cutters: Cultural Contacts between Soviet Latvian and Latvian Exile Writers] (Riga: LU LFMI, 2013, 2016), compiler and editor of Baltic Belles: The Dedalus Book of Latvian Women’s Literature (Dedalus, 2022), and general editor of the forthcoming Handbook of Latvian Literature (Brill). Her research interests include Baltic literature, Soviet and Cold War cultural history, women’s writing, autobiographical studies, and digital humanities.
This book will be of particular relevance to academic institutes, libraries, humanities students, and readers interested in literary and cultural studies, Scandinavian and Baltic studies, literary relations, and postcolonial literature and culture.