American Contributions to the 14th International Congress of Slavists, Ohrid, September 2008,
Vol. 2: Literature

David M. Bethea (ed.)

Volume 2: Literature

Sharon Lubkemann Allen
Navigating Past/Present: Modes of Mapping Cultural Memory in Post-Modern Russian and Luso-Brazilian Fiction

Todd Patrick Armstrong
“Training for Brightness” in Hanna Krall’s Sublokatorka: Polish and Jewish Identities in Post-War Poland

Julian W. Connolly
The Middle Way: Berberova between Bunin and Nabokov

Sibelan E. S. Forrester
Mother as Forebear: How Lidiia Chukovskaia’s Sof´ia Petrovna Rewrites Maksim Gor´kii’s Mat´

George J. Gutsche
A.K. Tolstoi’s Vampires

Michael R. Katz
Boris Akunin’s Khuliganstvo: Literary Parodies of Chekhov and Shakespeare

Inessa Medzhibovskaya
Tolstoi’s Conversion as a Test Case of Religious Maturity

Jason Merrill
Textual Transformations in Fedor Sologub’s Kniga prevrashchenii

Kevin Moss
Three Gay Films from Former Yugoslavia

Mary A. Nicholas
It’s the Thought that Counts: Conceptualism and Art in Eastern Europe and Beyond

Teresa Polowy
In Love with Alcohol: Russian Women’s Writing and the Representation of Alcohol Abuse among Women

Robert Romanchuk
Back to “Gogol’s Retreat from Love”: Mirgorod as a Locus of Gogolian Perversion (Part I: “Ivan Ivanovich s Ivanom Nikiforovichem”)

Jeanmarie Rouhier-Willoughby
Folk Elements in Contemporary Russian Life-Cycle Rituals

Rebecca Stanton
From “Underground” to “In the Basement”: How Odessa Replaced St. Petersburg as Capital of the Russian Literary Imagination

Dariusz Tolczyk
The Katyn Massacre and the Western Myth of World War II

Lisa Ryoko Wakamiya
Cosmopolitanism and/or Nationalism? When Contemporary Russian Émigré Literature Returns Home

Julia Zarankin Learning to See in Armenia

These two volumes of articles reflecting the scope of Slavic studies in the U.S. for the 2008 International Congress of Slavists are recommended for library collections at four-year colleges and research universities.