Reversals of the postmodern and the late Soviet simulacrum in the Baltic Countries — with exemplifications from Estonian literature

Between arts and politics: A postcolonial view on Baltic cultures of the Soviet era

“…In literature of the late 1960s and 1970s, Baltic literary canons took up complex questions of existentialist discourse, which arose both from local alienation from the Soviet state and through the literary influence of the widely read Albert Camus and (to a lesser extent) Jean-Paul Sartre. The late 1980s produce rather curious discursive mixtures, where artistic postmodernism with its ironic positioning merges with high-spirited sincere nationalism of the decolonization period (Annus and Hughes 2004).…”