Book “Baltic Literature and Russian Imperialism” has been published
The international academic publisher Brill has published the volume "Baltic Literature and Russian Imperialism". The book is edited by Aušra Jurgutienė, Senior Researcher at the Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore, and Eva Eglāja-Kristsone, Senior Researcher at the Institute of Literature, Folklore and Art of the University of Latvia (ILFA).
The volume explores how Russian imperial power has been represented, reinforced, and challenged in Baltic literature across different historical periods – from Tsarist Russia to the Soviet occupation and its legacy in contemporary culture.
The book includes four chapters by ILFA researchers:
- Benedikts Kalnačs, “Imperial Subalterns, National Poets: A Comparative Perspective on Ivan Franko and Rūdolfs Blaumanis”;
- Zita Kārkla, “Encountering Otherness: Latvian Women Travellers in the Caucasus and East Asia in the Late Nineteenth Century”;
- Eva Eglāja-Kristsone and Jānis Oga, “Crafting the Canon: People’s Poets and Writers in Soviet Ideological Constructs”;
- Ivars Šteinbergs, “Within Soviet Latvia’s Translation Boom: the Anti-imperial Nature of Knuts Skujenieks’s ‘School’ of Poetic Revivification”.
Baltic Literature and Russian Imperialism examines the relationship between Baltic literature and Russian imperial power, addressing questions concerning the presence and legacy of empire, colonialism, and the Soviet period in Baltic culture.
- Further information about the volume is available HERE.