Another Baltic Postcolonialism: Young Latvians, Baltic Germans, and the emergence of Latvian National Movement

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: Another Baltic Postcolonialism: Young Latvians, Baltic Germans, and the emergence of Latvian National Movement
المؤلفون: Ivars Ijabs
المصدر: Nationalities Papers. 42:88-107
بيانات النشر: Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2014.
سنة النشر: 2014
مصطلحات موضوعية: Postcolonialism, Literature, History, High culture, business.industry, 05 social sciences, Geography, Planning and Development, 0507 social and economic geography, Latvian, 050701 cultural studies, language.human_language, 0506 political science, Nationalism, German, Alliance, Geography, Political Science and International Relations, Elite, 050602 political science & public administration, language, Ethnology, Cultural imperialism, business
الوصف: This article looks at the emergence of Latvian nationalism in the mid-nineteenth century from the intercultural perspective of postcolonial theory. The writings of early Young Latvians, and the reaction to them from the dominant Baltic German elite, show that the emergence of a modern Latvian nationalism is to a large extent due to postcolonial mimicry, as described by Homi Bhabha. Attempts to imitate German cultural models and to develop a Latvian high culture lead to hostile reactions from the German side, which, in their turn, lead to increasing consolidation of Latvian nationalism. Since the Baltic German elite increasingly legitimized its rule in terms of cultural superiority, the Young Latvians’ alliance with the Russian Slavophiles led it to treat the Latvian nationalists as culturally inferior and partly Asiatic, like the Russians.
تدمد: 1465-3923
0090-5992
URL الوصول: https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::99264020fc79e519c7d8de3276ac721c
https://doi.org/10.1080/00905992.2013.823391
حقوق: CLOSED
رقم الأكسشن: edsair.doi...........99264020fc79e519c7d8de3276ac721c
قاعدة البيانات: OpenAIRE