Translated Poetry in Late Soviet Latvia: Sporadic modernism and the construction of world literature.
The article builds upon previous work that has been written about the connection between translation and colonial endeavours (Tymoczko, 1999; Robinson, 2014), as well as the research done in the field of Baltic post-colonialism (Annus, 2018), and focuses on cases of poetic production in Soviet Latvi...
| Published in: | Respectus Philologicus Vol. 45; no. 51; pp. 77 - 91 |
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Vilnius University
2024
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