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Sadhana Naithani's courage to navigate totally unknown waters has resulted in producing interesting and valuable scholarship. She provides a panoramic view of regional disciplinary history no one has written and where any insider would be drowned in technicalities, biographies, and details. The work is insightful and the chosen 'dramatic approach' pays off in reader's pleasure.--Toms Ķencis, PhD, researcher at the Institute of Literature, Folklore and Art at University of Latvia Folklore in Baltic History: Resistance and Resurgence offers an emotional discussion of folklore and its scholarship in relation to ethnic and national identity and to colonial and imperialistic powers. Sadhana Naithani introduces folkloristic research in three neighboring countries--Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania--and their dramatic histories. . . . With compassion and empathy towards the peoples of these Baltic countries, Naithani shows that forced isolation and lack of freedom can paradoxically become a source of generative power for cultural and scholarly revival. Moving from book knowledge to collegial interviews gives a unique personal touch to this book, which proves that folklore is not a marginal social phenomenon but a cultural resource with tremendous political potential. Even if folkloristic institutions become subject to ideological manipulations and state control, folklore cannot be suppressed or eradicated. Sadhana Naithani's former work in postcolonial folkloristics and her frequent visits to the Baltic countries have helped her achieve a deep understanding of the social and psychological realities during this dark period of Baltic history.--Ülo Valk, professor of Estonian and comparative folklore at University of Tartu

Folklore in Baltic History: Resistance and Resurgence offers an emotional discussion of folklore and its scholarship in relation to ethnic and national identity and to colonial and imperialistic powers. Sadhana Naithani introduces folkloristic research in three neighboring countries--Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania--and their dramatic histories. . . . With compassion and empathy towards the peoples of these Baltic countries, Naithani shows that forced isolation and lack of freedom can paradoxically become a source of generative power for cultural and scholarly revival. Moving from book knowledge to collegial interviews gives a unique personal touch to this book, which proves that folklore is not a marginal social phenomenon but a cultural resource with tremendous political potential. Even if folkloristic institutions become subject to ideological manipulations and state control, folklore cannot be suppressed or eradicated. Sadhana Naithani's former work in postcolonial folkloristics and her frequent visits to the Baltic countries have helped her achieve a deep understanding of the social and psychological realities during this dark period of Baltic history.--UElo Valk, professor of Estonian and comparative folklore at University of Tartu Sadhana Naithani's courage to navigate totally unknown waters has resulted in producing interesting and valuable scholarship. She provides a panoramic view of regional disciplinary history no one has written and where any insider would be drowned in technicalities, biographies, and details. The work is insightful and the chosen 'dramatic approach' pays off in reader's pleasure.--Toms Kencis, PhD, researcher at the Institute of Literature, Folklore and Art at University of Latvia

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Sadhana Naithani is professor at the Centre of German Studies of Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, India, and president of the International Society for Folk Narrative Research. She is author of In Quest of Indian Folktales: Pandit Ram Gharib Chaube and William Crooke; The Story-Time of the British Empire: Colonial and Postcolonial Folkloristics; and Folklore Theory in Postwar Germany, the latter two published by University Press of Mississippi.

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