Coloniality, Nationality, Modernity

This book explores the intersection of Soviet colonial strategies with broader processes of modernity and in their entangled relationship to Baltic national imaginaries. The chapters were originally published in a special issue of the Journal of Baltic Studies.

Epp Annus is a lecturer at Ohio State University and a senior researcher with the Estonian Literature Museum. She is the author of Soviet Postcolonial Studies: A View from the Western Borderlands (Routledge, 2018).

Introduction: 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 Kalnäs 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 Davoli-t- 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