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Contents Sharon Lubkemann Allen
Navigating Past/Present: Modes of Mapping Cultural Memory in Post-Modern Russian and Luso-Brazilian Fiction 1
Todd Patrick Armstrong
“Training for Brightness” in Hanna Krall’s Sublokatorka: Polish and Jewish Identities in Post-War Poland 25
Julian W. Connolly
The Middle Way: Berberova between Bunin and Nabokov 41
Sibelan E. S. Forrester
Mother as Forebear: How Lidiia Chukovskaia’s Sof´ia Petrovna Rewrites Maksim Gor´kii’s Mat´ 51
George J. Gutsche
A.K. Tolstoi’s Vampires 69
Michael R. Katz
Boris Akunin’s Khuliganstvo: Literary Parodies of Chekhov and Shakespeare 85
Inessa Medzhibovskaya
Tolstoi’s Conversion as a Test Case of Religious Maturity 91
Jason Merrill
Textual Transformations in Fedor Sologub’s Kniga prevrashchenii 107
Kevin Moss
Three Gay Films from Former Yugoslavia 125
Mary A. Nicholas
It’s the Thought that Counts: Conceptualism and Art in Eastern Europe and Beyond 139
Teresa Polowy
In Love with Alcohol: Russian Women’s Writing and the Representation of Alcohol Abuse among Women 155
Robert Romanchuk
Back to “Gogol’s Retreat from Love”: Mirgorod as a Locus of Gogolian Perversion (Part I: “Ivan Ivanovich s Ivanom Nikiforovichem”) 167
Jeanmarie Rouhier-Willoughby
Folk Elements in Contemporary Russian Life-Cycle Rituals 187
Rebecca Stanton
From “Underground” to “In the Basement”: How Odessa Replaced St. Petersburg as Capital of the Russian Literary Imagination 203
Dariusz Tolczyk
The Katyn Massacre and the Western Myth of World War II 217
Lisa Ryoko Wakamiya
Cosmopolitanism and/or Nationalism? When Contemporary Russian Émigré Literature Returns Home 233
Julia Zarankin
Learning to See in Armenia 245
