Description
Book SynopsisThis book deals with the spatial concepts of Lithuania and other geo-images that either ""competed"" in the nineteenth century with the term Lithuania or were of a different taxonomic level (Samogitia, Prussia's Lithuania, Lithuania Minor, Poland, the Western region, the Northwest Region, Lita/Lite, Belarus, East Prussia etc.). The Russian, Lithuanian, Polish, Belarusian, Jewish, and German geo-images of this territory are analyzed in separate chapters of this volume. The
spatial and
topographical turns, especially the innovative perspective suggested by French Marxist Henri Lefebvre to look at the (social) space as a product of social creativity, research on so-called mental maps, postcolonial studies, and nationalism studies provided some theoretical background as well as analytical approaches for the studies published in this volume.
Trade Review“This book is a great example of interdisciplinary research that goes over the accepted boundaries of the national narrative. Thanks to this, Staliunas’s edited volume is an important component for every version of [Lithuanian] national historiography. Its authors’ methodological approach uncovers the multivalence of national myths and highlights the importance of the global context that helps overcome ‘methodological nationalism.’”
—Gennady Korolev, Ab Imperio
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations
Introduction
Chapter 1: Poland or Russia? Lithuania on the Russian Mental Map
Darius Staliūnas
Chapter 2: Images of Lithuania in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century
Zita Medišauskienė
Chapter 3: The Pre-1914 Creation of Lithuanian "National Territory"
Darius Staliūnas
Chapter 4: “Lithuania—An Extension of Poland”: The Territorial Image of Lithuania in the Polish Discourse
Olga Mastianica and Darius Staliūnas
Chapter 5: Between Ethnographic Belarus and the Reestablishment of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania: How Belarusian Nationalism Created Its “National Territory” at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century
Olga Mastianica
Chapter 6
Lite on the Jewish Mental Maps
Vladimir Levin and Darius Staliūnas
Chapter 7: Lithuania in the Spatial Concepts of Germans and Prussian Lithuanians
Vasilijus Safronovas
Chapter 8: In Lieu of a Conclusion
Index
