Soviet Postcolonial Studies

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“…8 This unity has, however, been often questioned (see, e.g.,Apsalons 1996). 9 On the history and myths regarding Iceland"s role in the recognition of the Baltic countries, see Gu ni J hannesson (2016).10 That is, since the third partition of the Lithuanian-Polish Commonwealth by Austria, Prussia, and Russia in 1795.11 Soviet Postcolonial Studies by the Estonian scholar EppAnnus (2018) illuminates several aspects that this paragraph alludes to, including national nostalgia as a product of the "traumatic rupture" caused by Soviet occupation/hegemony in the so-called "Soviet Western borderlands" (i.e., the Baltic countries and the countries of East Central Europe), and the relevance of the post-colonial approach, however reframed, for the study of the relation of these countries to the Soviet Union.12 Lith. orig.…”

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“If Sweden is a province, what are we?” Map-making and man-making in Marius Ivaškevičius’s essay series My Scandinavia

Körber,

Steponavičiūtė-Aleksiejūnienė

2023

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This co-written article approaches the influential Lithuanian writer and playwright Marius Ivaškevičius’s essay series My Scandinavia (2004) from two different vantage points reflecting either side of the former ‘Iron Curtain’. Published in the year when Lithuania joined the European Union, the essay series describes the narrator’s travels and symbolic and ironic conquest of Northern Europe in the wake of the border openings following the collapse of the Soviet Union. First, employing the notions of “temporal” and “spatial nodes” (Ringgard & DuBois 2017), the article addresses how the crossings of the Baltic Sea and journeys through Northern Europe depicted in Ivaškevičius’s essays represent an awareness of significant shifts in the unfolding of European history and Europe’s spatial configuration. Second, the article reads My Scandinavia as an example of creative map-making in line with theories of critical cartography. Finally, the article puts the travelling subject in My Scandinavia centre stage, looking at the dialectic ways in which subject and place create each other. Just as Scandinavia has been actively moulding the narrating and, by implication, also the writing subject’s biography, so has he given Scandinavia shape through his discourse, while also idiosyncratically framing Europe’s shifting political and mental geography.

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“If Sweden is a province, what are we?” Map-making and man-making in Marius Ivaškevičius’s essay series My Scandinavia

Körber,

Steponavičiūtė-Aleksiejūnienė

2023

10.1515/fsp

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Translation and the History of European Communism

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Monticelli

Rundle

2022

Translation Under Communism

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East Central Europe Between the Colonial and the Postcolonial: A Critical Introduction

Kołodziejczyk

Huigen²

2023

Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies

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In this introductory chapter, we propose a comparative model for studying the in-between location of East Central Europe on the cultural, historical, and political map of Europe. To construct this model, we make a critical survey of theoretical frameworks that have been deployed so far and claim that postcolonialism can be used as a hermeneutical device for situating East Central Europe on the global map of (colonial) modernity. Analysing the approaches developed in studies on the region, we discuss the shortcomings of using postcolonialism for claiming the postcolonial status for the region.

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Soviet Postcolonial Studies

Cited by 16 publications

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“If Sweden is a province, what are we?” Map-making and man-making in Marius Ivaškevičius’s essay series My Scandinavia

“If Sweden is a province, what are we?” Map-making and man-making in Marius Ivaškevičius’s essay series My Scandinavia

Translation and the History of European Communism

East Central Europe Between the Colonial and the Postcolonial: A Critical Introduction

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