How Newness Enters a Country: Reception of the “Postcolonial” in Estonia
How Newness Enters a Country: Reception of the “Postcolonial” in Estonia

Summary/Abstract: That the reception of literature is a dynamic, ever-changing process is a claim not many scholars would be likely to refute. Also, academic paradigms in the framework of which reception takes place are no less subject to shifts and changes. The past fifteen years have witnessed a major transformation in the Estonian literary system, its hurried, and at times haphazard, becoming adapted to a circulation of texts and ideas from which it used to be more or less isolated during the Soviet period. This paper attempts to trace a recent development in the history of ideas in Estonia and observe the emergence of postcolonial theory on our literary scene, as regards both scholarship as well as framing translations of some works of fiction that the academia has come to recognize as “post-colonial”.

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