The Politics of Literary History - Literary Historiography in Russia, Latvia, the Czech Republic and Finland after 1990 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2023)

This book looks at literary historiography in Russia, Latvia, the Czech Republic and Finland, focusing on how seismic shifts in state politics and ideology after 1990 changed the writing of national literary histories in these countries. While Russia saw a return to a more nationalist way of thinking about literature and a new emphasis on Orthodox religion after the fall of the Soviet Union, the opposite is true for Latvia, the Czech Republic and Finland. In these countries, literary historiography fosters connections between Western scholarship and literatures written in the national language, and engages with questions such as transnationalism, minorities, culture and power, and the cultural construction of identities. This book scrutinizes the different ways in which the construction of national, cultural and European identities has occurred in and through the literary historiography of North-Eastern Europe in the last few decades.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Release date:	September 2023
First published:	2024
Editors:	Liisa Steinby • Benedikts KalnaÄ�s • Mikhail Oshukov • Viola Parente-ÄŒapková
Dimensions:	210 x 148mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	404
Edition:	1st ed. 2023
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-118723-0
Categories:	Books
LSN:	3-03-118723-7
Barcode:	9783031187230

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