| Title |
Современная русская литература Литвы, Латвии, Эстонии: балтийский постколониальный роман / |
| Translation of Title |
Šiuolaikinė rusų literatūra Lietuvoje, Latvijoje, Estijoje: Baltijos pokolonijinis romanas. |
| Translation of Title |
Contemporary Russian literature in Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia: the Baltic postcolonial novel. |
| Authors |
Šalkinė, Aleksandra |
| DOI |
10.15388/vu.thesis.346 |
| Full Text |
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| Pages |
140 |
| Keywords [eng] |
postcolonial ; trauma ; memory ; identification ; adaptation |
| Abstract [eng] |
The thesis examines the prose of three Russian-speaking writers from the Baltic States: the novel The Tsar Ordered to Hang You (2017) by Lena Eltang (Lithuania); Once Upon a Time There Lived an Old Man and an Old Woman (2006) by Elena Katishonok (Latvia); the novels A Handful of Ashes (2009) and Harbin Moths (2013) by Andrei Ivanov (Estonia). The theoretical and methodological basis of the thesis is postcolonial theory, closely related trauma studies and memory studies, as well as Pierre Bourdieu's theory of literary sociology. The concept and meaning of postcolonial trauma serve as an important conceptual framework of the thesis, which is used to investigate the contemporary state of the three Baltic societies and to develop analytical schemes of traumatic experiences manifested in the content of the fictional works by Eltang, Katishonok and Ivanov. The paper demonstrates how the collective cultural trauma of the protagonists (Others – members of national minorities or emigrants) affects the mechanisms of their behaviour, identification and adaptation – while also revealing how the traumatic experience of loss of one's place is characterised by manifestations of a displaced person's psyche and by an identity crisis characterised by frustration, maladaptation, feelings of anxiety or despair. |
| Dissertation Institution |
Vilniaus universitetas. |
| Type |
Doctoral thesis |
| Language |
Russian |
| Publication date |
2022 |
