Illustrating Baltic Experience: Hybrid Texts and Contexts

Session Submission Type: Panel

Abstract

This is an individual paper panel.
A hybrid text (or, one might argue, a hybrid conference presentation) plays with genre, form, technique, and media, offering readers/listeners complex, thought-provoking ways of interpreting and reacting to given material. In this panel,two of the presenters examine aspects of Baltic literature in inter-textual terms, while the other two utilize photography and film to examine various facets of Baltic wartime experience.

Sub Unit

• Literature and Language Studies

Chair

• Daiva Markelis, Eastern Illinois University

Individual Presentations

• Hybrid Genres as a Platform for Social History Representation in Recent Latvian Literature - Maija Burima, Daugavpils University

• The Latvian Picaresque Novel: Illustrations and Artistic Layout in Print - Elīna Skujiņa, Art Academy of Latvia

• Staged: The Peculiar Confluence of Burlesque and Soviet Gulags - Jocelyn Bartkevicius, University of Central Florida

• White Stockings: A Poetic Study of Mythical Freedom Fighters - Lina Ramona Vitkauskas, Poet/Author