Ewa M. Thompson (born Ewa Majewska; 1937 in

Kaunas Kaunas (; ; also see other names) is the second-largest city in Lithuania after Vilnius and an important centre of Lithuanian economic, academic, and cultural life. Kaunas was the largest city and the centre of a county in the Duchy of Trakai ...

) is Polish-American Slavist at Rice University. She is the editor of The Sarmatian Review. She publishes about imperial motives in Russian literature.

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 Clare Cavanagh (born May 23, 1956) is an American literary critic, a Slavist, and a translator. She is the Frances Hooper Professor in the Arts and Humanities and Chair of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Northwestern Univer ...

's works.

English language books

* ''Russian Formalism and Anglo-American New Criticism: A Comparative Study'', The Hague: Mouton, 1971. * ''Witold Gombrowicz'', Boston: Twayne 1979. * ''Understanding Russia: the Holy Fool in Russian Culture'', University Press of America 1987. * ''The Search for Self-Definition in Russian Literature'', Houston: Rice University Press 1991. * ''Imperial Knowledge: Russian Literature and Colonialism'', Westport, CT and London: Greenwood 2000. Reviewed Work: Imperial Knowledge: Russian Literature and Colonialism by Ewa M. Thompson Review by: Theodore R. Weeks
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