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With Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine reviving imperial rhetoric, Baltic Literature and Russian Imperialism explores how literature has long resisted domination. Twenty scholars uncover how Latvian, Lithuanian, and Estonian writers responded to Tsarist, Soviet, and post-Soviet forms of Russian power. From censored novels and forced Russification to suppressed memory and cultural survival, this book traces how literature exposes injustice, preserves national identity, and challenges the myths of liberation. Drawing on rare archival sources and regional postcolonial approaches, this timely volume reveals why the cultural fight for freedom, waged with words, is as urgent now as ever.
Contributors are: Madara Āriņa, Eva Eglāja-Kristsone, Anna Freiberga, Deniss Hanovs, Aušra Jurgutienė, Narius Kairys, Benedikts Kalnačs, Ieva Kalniņa, Zita Kārkla, Laurynas Kudijanovas, Laura Laurušaitė, Mārtiņš Mintaurs, Donata Mitaitė, Jānis Oga, Dalia Pauliukevičiūtė, Aare Pilv, Ivars Šteinbergs, Jüri Talvet, Valdis Tēraudkalns, and Brigita Valantiejienė.
Contributors are: Madara Āriņa, Eva Eglāja-Kristsone, Anna Freiberga, Deniss Hanovs, Aušra Jurgutienė, Narius Kairys, Benedikts Kalnačs, Ieva Kalniņa, Zita Kārkla, Laurynas Kudijanovas, Laura Laurušaitė, Mārtiņš Mintaurs, Donata Mitaitė, Jānis Oga, Dalia Pauliukevičiūtė, Aare Pilv, Ivars Šteinbergs, Jüri Talvet, Valdis Tēraudkalns, and Brigita Valantiejienė.
Price: $136.00
Pages: 313
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: National Cultivation of Culture
Publication Date:
20 August 2026
ISBN: 9789004745711
Format: Hardcover
Aušra Jurgutienė, Ph.D. (1998), Vytautas Magnus University in Lithuania, is a senior researcher at the Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore in Vilnius. She has published three monographs in Lithuanian, the latest being Dekonstrukcinių skaitymų užrašai [Notes on Deconstructive Readings] (Vilnius: Lietuvių literatūros ir tautosakos institutas, 2023), and edited several academic books on literary theory, including XX amžiaus literatūros teorijos [20th Century Literary Theory], Vol. 4 (Vilnius: Lietuvių literatūros ir tautosakos institutas, 2006 – 2011) and The Literary Field under Communist Rule (Boston: ASP, 2018).
Eva Eglāja-Kristsone, Ph.D. (2007), University of Latvia, is the Director of the Institute of Literature, Folklore and Art, University of Latvia. She is the Head of two digital resources: literatura.lv, the first digital academic literary resource in Latvia (since 2015), and womage.lv, the resource for women’s history (since 2021). She is the author of Dzelzsgriezēji. Latvijas un Rietumu trimdas rakstnieku kontakti [Iron Cutters. Cultural Contacts between Soviet Latvian and Latvian Exile Writers] (Riga: LU LFMI, 2013, 2016). Her areas of research are Baltic literature, Cold War studies, literary anthropology, gender studies, women’s writing, autobiographical studies, and digital humanities.
Eva Eglāja-Kristsone, Ph.D. (2007), University of Latvia, is the Director of the Institute of Literature, Folklore and Art, University of Latvia. She is the Head of two digital resources: literatura.lv, the first digital academic literary resource in Latvia (since 2015), and womage.lv, the resource for women’s history (since 2021). She is the author of Dzelzsgriezēji. Latvijas un Rietumu trimdas rakstnieku kontakti [Iron Cutters. Cultural Contacts between Soviet Latvian and Latvian Exile Writers] (Riga: LU LFMI, 2013, 2016). Her areas of research are Baltic literature, Cold War studies, literary anthropology, gender studies, women’s writing, autobiographical studies, and digital humanities.