Ewa Thompson

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Ewa M. Thompson
Born
Ewa Majewska

1937
Kaunas, Lithuania
Alma mater University of Warsaw
Known forImperial Knowledge: Russian Literature and Colonialism
Scientific career
Fields Slavic studies

Ewa M. Thompson (born Ewa Majewska; 1937 in Kaunas) is a Polish-American Slavist at Rice University. One of the areas of her research concerns imperial motives in Russian literature. [2] She was the editor of the Sarmatian Review .

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Post-colonialism

Thompson's book Imperial Knowledge: Russian Literature and Colonialism was published in Polish in 2000. In it, she strongly asserted the need for revising textual practices around Russian literature that had legitimized colonial practices more brutal than what she called "canonical" colonial practices legitimated in British and French literature. She linked the silence about Russian hegemony about Central European colonies and colonial practices with a Western fascination with Russia, and subsequently with the Soviet Union. Although the book did not initially receive much recognition, it has been rediscovered and reinvigorated following the publication of Slavist Clare Cavanagh's works. [3]

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References

  1. "Ewa M. Thompson". Rice University Department of Modern and Classical Literatures and Cultures. Retrieved 15 September 2023.
  2. "Imperialism in Russian Literature - In a Converstation with Ewa Thompson". Review of Democracy. 2022-06-07. Retrieved 2023-02-25.
  3. Postcolonial Europe? Essays on Post-Communist Literatures and Cultures. BRILL. 2015-07-28. pp. 88–89. ISBN   978-90-04-30385-0.
  4. Slavic Review, Richard Sheldon
  5. Review by Peter Petro
  6. The Social Science Journal,Volume 25, 1988 - Issue 2, Review by Libor Brom
  7. Slavic Review, by Kathleen Parthé
  8. Imperical Knowledge: Russian Literature and Colonialism (review), Katya Hokanson
  9. Reviewed Work: Imperial Knowledge: Russian Literature and Colonialism by Ewa M. Thompson Review by: Theodore R. Weeks