Join the Slavic Literature and Culture Forum for a talk by visiting scholar Dr. Piret Viires (Talinn University). Dr. Viires will present "Literary Changes in Post-Soviet Estonia: the Case of Ethnofuturism”. Please see an abstract below. There will be light refreshments served after the talk.
This event is open to the entire university community.
Dr. Piret Viires will talk about literary changes that occured in post-Soviet Estonia in the early 1990s with the emphasis on the concept of ethnofuturism. Ethnofuturism was a cultural concept created in 1988–1989 by an avant-garde young writers' group Hirohall. The ethnofuturists aimed towards uniting past and present, e.g. the archaic ethnic forms with a contemporary vision of the world. The discussion about ethnofuturism raises many questions, like tensions between modernism and postmodernism, the contradiction between solemnity and irony, and how the Estonian national identity was re-formulated and secured in Post-Soviet Estonia.
