The Literary Field under Communist Rule / / ed. by Dalia Satkauskytė, Aušra Jurgutienė.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Academic Studies Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• MitwirkendeR: Arsenev, Pavel,; Daugirdaitė, Solveiga,; Dobrenko, Evgeny,; Eglāja-Kristsone, Eva,; Ivanauskas, Vilius,; Jurgutienė, Aušra,; Kharkhun, Valentyna,; Mačianskaitė, Loreta,; Mihkelev, Anneli,; Mitaitė, Donata,; Putinaitė, Nerija,; Satkauskytė, Dalia,
• HerausgeberIn: Jurgutienė, Aušra,; Satkauskytė, Dalia,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Lithuanian Studies without Borders
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (258 p.)

This volume widens the field of Soviet literature studies by interpreting it as a multinational project, with national literatures acting not as copies of the Russian model, but as creators of a multidimensional literary space. The book proposes a reconsideration of Pierre Bourdieu's theory of literary field and analyzes the interactions of literature, power, and economics under the communist rule. The articles selected include theoretical discussions and case studies from different national literatures presenting different structural elements of the Soviet literary field, as well as phenomena created by the complexity of the field itself, such as the Aesopian language, state of emergency literature, or compromise as the essential element of the writers' identity.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Soviet Literature as Theoretical and Historical Problem -- Soviet Multinational Literature: Approaches, Problems, and Perspectives of Study -- The Role of Aesopian Language in the Literary Field: Autonomy in Question -- Between Universalism and Localism: The Strategies of Soviet Lithuanian Writers and "Sandwiched" Lithuanian Ethnic Particularism -- Contradictions in Lithuanian Literary Field -- Atheist Autobiography: Politics, the Literary Canon, and Restructured Experience -- Sartre and de Beauvoir: Encounter the Pensive Christ -- The Production of Eimuntas Nekrošius's Kvadratas as a Palimpsest of Soviet-era Memory -- The Experiences of One Generation of Soviet Poets: Their Illusions and Choices -- The Art of Compromise in Literary Criticism that Legitimated Soviet-Era Modernism -- Hermeneutics of Truth and Compromise in Literatures of Other Soviet Republics -- Ukrainian Literature of the Late Soviet Period: The History of Three Generations of Poets -- State of Emergency Literature: Varlam Shalamov vs. "Progressive Humanity" -- Reading Literary History through the Archives: The Case of the Latvian Literary Journal Karogs -- Hamlet and Folklore as Elements of the Resistance Movement in Estonian Literature -- Biographical Notes -- Index