Translating the Soviet Thaw in the Estonian context: entangled perspectives on the book series Loomingu Raamatukogu

Daniele Monticelli

Journal of Baltic Studies, 2020, vol. 51, issue 3, 407-427

Abstract: This article develops a multilayered analysis of the Estonian book series Loomingu Raamatukogu within the context of the Soviet Thaw. The series has been issued since 1957 and is principally devoted to translations of foreign literature. My argument takes the Thaw as a new field of uncertain possibilities and shows how a wide translation project became the catalyst for experimentation in the gray zone between the allowed and the forbidden. Investigating the entanglement of different levels of contextual analysis through the prism of Loomingu Raamatukogu lets us refine our understanding of the Thaw and of the complex possibilities and constraints that shaped the performative capacity of cultural agents in the Soviet 1960s.

Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1080/01629778.2020.1762685

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