Interlitteraria  

The Editors

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Jüri Talvet

Despite some historically conditioned differences between three Eastern-Baltic cultures, none of them seems to have had sufficient defence mechanisms to develop any substantial resistance to powerful cultural fashions and officialism in culture imposed by... see more

Aušra Jurgutiene

A heating national identity that makes use of romantic myths from the Golden Age of Lithuania creates the necessary “emotional glue” that can bring harmony to a social group. A coherent narrative of national history together with collective memories are i... see more

Miguel Ángel Pérez Sánchez

In the course of the 19th century, from one extreme to another, literary manifestations of nationalism have shown up in several different genres, and meaningfully in the epic genre, which is perceived, according to the Western literary canon, with its beg... see more

Pietro U. Dini

Languages, literatures and nationalities in Lithunia (and in the East Baltic region).This article’s focus is on Lithuania and its literature, but many considerations contained in it are also valid for the whole East Baltic cultural region.A preliminary di... see more

Anneli Saro

Language used on the stage always bears certain connotations to the identity, ideology and morality of characters, theatre makers and audiences. In my article, I am going to analyse how minority languages have been used or represented in Finnish, Estonian... see more

Anneli Kõvamees

In the era of hyphenated identities, one’s identity may not be as clear as decades before; the same applies to culture and literature. Over the past years, there have been discussions about the exact definition of national literature. In Estonia there hav... see more

Manfredas Žvirgždas

In this article, motifs, references and influences of Latvian descent in the poetry of Lithuanian Henrikas Nagys (1920–1996) who spent most of his creative life in Canada are observed and analyzed. Nagys was praised by critics as one of the main modernize... see more

Mart Velsker

The focus of the article is on South Estonian literature, with an aim to provide a survey of the phenomenon while discussing problems that arise in describing it. These problems are related to the small size of the literary corpus, transformation of modes... see more

Gintare Bernotiene

This article examines how Lithuanian poetry was represented for foreign readers in 15 anthologies published from 1978 to 2013 in Lithuania and abroad. The object of investigation is not a huge corpus of authors representing the official canon but the cult... see more

Eva Eglaja-Kristsone

To describe the exilic condition, many scholars have made use of the concept of liminality. Being neither here (Great Britain as a place of exile) nor there (Latvian exile society as a substitute of a nation) characterizes the life of one of the best Latv... see more

Anneli Mihkelev

Colonization influences the colonized country politically, economically and culturally, and colonial traces persist everywhere in a colonized society, particularly in social manners, behaviour and culture. After a period of colonization, a period of decol... see more

Laura Laurušaite

A newly deployed identity, separated from its natural location, loses its solid national or ethnic status and hybridizes, acquiring features of the new context. Employing the concepts of self-image, imageme and counter-image introduced by contemporary lit... see more

Olga Bazilevica

In the following article, the correlation between the representation of adolescence and political reality in memory fiction will be analysed using the example of two novels: Ruta Mežavilka’s Latvian novel Dzimuši Latvijai (Born for Latvia) and Wenn ich gr... see more

Anna Auzina

Monta Kroma (1919–94) is one of the key female representatives of Latvian poetry in the 1960s–80s. She is one of the most uncommon Latvian poets of this time as well – a brilliant modernist, whose poetics are different from the mainstream in both subject ... see more

Zita Karkla

Housework that women do has no lasting effects, produces nothing tangible, gives no sense of closure and, for this reason, it is perceived as trivial, mindlessly repetitive, and invisible. However, examining texts by two Latvian women writers Regina Ezera... see more

Karlis Verdinš

One culture within a culture is the culture of LGBT people in Latvia or, to use a contemporary designation, queer culture. In Latvia, queer culture is still practically invisible. In this paper I will analyse two types of queer narratives: documentary lif... see more

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