Vectors of Postcolonial Critique in Studies on Latvian Literature: Global Context and Local Interpretations

This article presents an overview of the formation of postcolonial critique in Latvian literary studies. It characterizes the major external impulses of the assimilation of methodology and its transfer to Latvian literature, highlighting the local content of concepts used in postcolonial theory. The article examines in detail the key positions in research by Benedikts Kalnads, Pauls Daija, and Zanda GOtmane, who study the processes of history of the literature of the Baltic and Latvian space from positions of postcolonial critique, highlighting the cultural and ideological dimension of literature and analysis of discursive manifestations of power. This overview contains conclusions about the growing tendency of constructing postcolonial ethnicity in Latvian literature, as well as manifestations of the complexes of postcolonial society, particularly traumas of postcolonialism, for which uncertainty and gradual self-cognition in another context are characteristic.