Cultural heterologies and democracy: culture in the Baltic countries in the 1990s

Journal of Baltic Studies, vol 56, no 2, 2025. Edited by Luule Epner, Virve Sarapik and Piret Viires

Table of contents:

Introduction
Cultural heterologies and democracy: culture in the Baltic countries in the 1990s
Virve Sarapik, Luule Epner & Piret Viires
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Neoliberalism or postmodernism? Decolonizing Soviet Estonia, 1987–1991
Epp Annus
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The emergence of postmodernism in Latvian literary culture
Eva Eglāja-Kristsone & Pauls Daija

Ethno-futurism: burden and freedom
Virve Sarapik
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Transition and visual arts in Estonia 1988–1995: cultural policy, financing, legislation, and social changes
Karolina Łabowicz-Dymanus

Tallinn’s Freedom Square as a heterogeneous public space
Ingrid Ruudi

A sense of change: projections of the Lithuanian literary field in 1988 (based on material from the literary journal Pergalė)
Dalia Satkauskytė

Baltic theater festivals in the 1990s as agents of change
Zane Kreicberga †
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From the shadows to the light: paradoxes of queer literature in post-Soviet Estonia
Piret Viires
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Melancholic sons and dying mothers: queerness in (post-)Soviet Baltic fiction
Kārlis Vērdiņš & Jānis Ozoliņš

Editorial
In memoriam: Zane Kreicberga (1971–2024)

Forum
The left bites back: 2024 parliamentary election in Lithuania
Mindaugas Jurkynas

Book Review
Baltic human–animal histories: relations, trading, and representations
edited by Linda Kaljundi, Anu Mänd, Ulrike Plath, and Kadri Tüür, Berlin, Lang, 2024, 370 pp.
Anton Kotenko

Book Review
L’Italia in Lituania: breve dizionario biografico degli italiani in Lituania
by Pietro Umberto Dini, Novi Ligure, Joker, 2024, 394 pp.
Rosario Napolitano

Book Review
Jonas Mulokas: architectūrinio identiteto paieškos globaliame pasaulyje
by Vaidas Petrulis, Brigita Tranavičiūtė, and Paulius Tautvydas Laurinaitis, Kaunas, KTU leidykla Technologija, 2024, 362 pp.
Milda B. Richardson