“Black Balts” Abroad: White Racism, Homosexuality and (Non-)Tolerance in Lithuanian and Latvian Emigration Narratives
“Black Balts” Abroad: White Racism, Homosexuality and (Non-)Tolerance in Lithuanian and Latvian Emigration Narratives
Author(s): Laura LaurušaitėSubject(s): Gender Studies, Latvian Literature, Lithuanian Literature, Social differentiation, Migration Studies, Theory of Literature, Identity of Collectives
Published by: Tartu Ülikooli Kirjastus
Keywords: literary imagology; Lithuanian emigration literature; Latvian emigration literature; intolerance; homosexuality; stereotype; white superiority; identity;
Summary/Abstract: The present article will use the method of literary imagology in order to study the 21st-century Lithuanian and Latvian (e)migration literature and experiences in the context of racial, sexual, and cultural otherness. It will discusses marriage to a foreigner as something more than an official legitimation of one’s love for a person of other ethnicity, the introduction of foreignness into the world of one’s own culture, and the ideological penetration of the other into that which is inherited, ordinary and familiar. Provinciality, intolerance, and inability to admit and accept the Other or perceive oneself as a sexual Other remain an important part of Lithuanian and Latvian identity. In turn, emigrants in the host communities are a minority with counter-negative images, especially social ones.
Journal: Interlitteraria
- Issue Year: XXIV/2019
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 290-308
- Page Count: 19
- Language: English