Üldistavaid tähelepanekuid paguluses ilmunud eesti kirjanduslugude pinnalt
Generalizing observations springing from the Estonian literary histories published in exile

Summary/Abstract: The article considers the rather numerous community of Estonian exiles that came into being during 1939–1944 and that existed throughout the whole Soviet period; the article concentrates on the community’s literature based on the literary histories published in exile. One of the main presuppositions of the article is that literary histories are multi-leveled metatexts that reflect the cultural situation and the time they were written and published in. The article focuses specifically on the periods represented in the literary histories, the periodizations used in them and on the persons mentioned or not mentioned. The contents of the literary histories are viewed in two larger units which are distinguished by the audience of these histories – detectable on the basis of the choice of language: the corpus is divided into texts in Estonian and in foreign languages. The observations made on the basis of the analysis of the histories strive to bring out and conceptualize the variations and the distinct similarities of the histories published in exile, following their specific cultural situations and drawing on the cultural semiotics theory of Juri Lotman.

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