Ewa Thompson Explained

Ewa M. Thompson
Birth Name:	Ewa Majewska
Birth Date:	1937
Birth Place:	Kaunas, Lithuania
Fields:	Slavic studies
Alma Mater:	University of Warsaw Vanderbilt University^[1]
Known For:	Imperial Knowledge: Russian Literature and Colonialism

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]}

External links

• Ewa M. Thompson’s Homepage

Notes and References

1. Web site: Ewa M. Thompson . Rice University Department of Modern and Classical Literatures and Cultures . 15 September 2023.
2. Web site: 2022-06-07 . Imperialism in Russian Literature - In a Converstation with Ewa Thompson . 2023-02-25 . Review of Democracy . en-GB.
3. Book: Postcolonial Europe? Essays on Post-Communist Literatures and Cultures . 2015-07-28 . BRILL . 978-90-04-30385-0 . 88–89 . en.
4. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/slavic-review/article/russian-formalism-and-angloamerican-new-criticism-a-comparative-study-by-ewa-m-thompson-de-proprietatibus-litterarum-indiana-university-series-maior-8-the-hague-and-paris-mouton-1971-160-pp-30-dutch-guilders/88833CA9A6AD71F96083D0FF2DAF2A59 Slavic Review, Richard Sheldon
5. https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/IFR/article/view/13432/14515 Review by Peter Petro
6. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1016/0362-3319%2888%2990012-2?journalCode=ussj20 The Social Science Journal,Volume 25, 1988 - Issue 2, Review by Libor Brom
7. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/slavic-review/article/abs/the-search-for-selfdefinition-in-russian-literature-ed-ewa-m-thompson-foreword-arnold-mcmillin-houston-rice-university-press-1991-index-hard-bound/81FEC34C8123541805C9A48425E7937D Slavic Review, by Kathleen Parthé
8. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/7711 Imperical Knowledge: Russian Literature and Colonialism (review), Katya Hokanson
9. https://www.jstor.org/stable/24659379 Reviewed Work: Imperial Knowledge: Russian Literature and Colonialism by Ewa M. Thompson Review by: Theodore R. Weeks