Spatial Concepts of Lithuania in the Long Nineteenth Century / / Darius Staliūnas.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter ASP eBook Package 2016
• HerausgeberIn: Staliūnas, Darius,
• Author: Staliūnas, Darius,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Lithuanian Studies without Borders
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (478 p.)

This book deals with the spatial concepts of Lithuania and other geo-images that either "competed" in the nineteenth century with the term Lithuania or were of a different taxonomic level (Samogitia, Prussia's Lithuania, Lithuania Minor, Poland, the Western Region, the Northwest Region, Lita/Lite, Belarus, East Prussia etc.). The Russian, Lithuanian, Polish, Belarusian, Jewish, and German geo-images of this territory are analyzed in separate chapters of this volume. The spatial and topographical turns, especially the innovative perspective suggested by French Marxist Henri Lefebvre to look at the (social) space as a product of social creativity, research on so-called mental maps, postcolonial studies, and nationalism studies provided some theoretical background as well as analytical approaches for the studies published in this volume.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1: Poland or Russia? Lithuania on the Russian Mental Map / Staliūnas, Darius -- CHAPTER 2: Images of Lithuania in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century / Medišauskienė, Zita -- CHAPTER 3: The Pre-1914 Creation of Lithuanian "National Territory" / Staliūnas, Darius -- CHAPTER 4: "Lithuania-An Extension of Poland": The Territorial Image of Lithuania in the Polish Discourse / Mastianica, Olga / Staliūnas, Darius -- CHAPTER 5: Between Ethnographic Belarus and the Reestablishment of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania: How Belarusian Nationalism Created Its "National Territory" at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century / Mastianica, Olga -- CHAPTER 6: Lite on the Jewish Mental Maps / Levin, Vladimir / Staliūnas, Darius -- CHAPTER 7: Lithuania in the Spatial Concepts of Germans and Prussian Lithuanians / Safronovas, Vasilijus -- CHAPTER 8: In Lieu of a Conclusion -- Index