Ewa Thompson

Ewa M. Thompson
Born	Ewa Majewska 1937 Kaunas, Lithuania
Alma mater	University of Warsaw Vanderbilt University[1]
Known for	Imperial 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.

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]

English language books

• Russian Formalism and Anglo-American New Criticism: A Comparative Study, The Hague: Mouton, 1971.[4]
• Witold Gombrowicz, Boston: Twayne 1979.[5]
• Understanding Russia: the Holy Fool in Russian Culture, University Press of America 1987.[6]
• The Search for Self-Definition in Russian Literature, Houston: Rice University Press 1991.[7]
• Imperial Knowledge: Russian Literature and Colonialism, Westport, CT and London: Greenwood 2000.[8][9]

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

External links

• Ewa M. Thompson’s Homepage Archived 2011-09-27 at the Wayback Machine