Foreword - Bulgaria and Its Worlding: A Historical Perspective (Maria Todorova, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Acknowledgments
Introduction - Modern Bulgarian Literature: Being in the World (Mihaela P. Harper, Bilkent University, Turkey, and Dimitar Kambourov, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
Part I Histories: In Search of a National Profile of World Literature
1. Medieval Bulgarian Literature as World Literature (Diana Atanassova, Sofia University, Bulgaria)
2. Bulgarian Literature in a "Romaic" Context (Raymond Detrez, University of Ghent, Belgium)
3. The Bulgarian Literary Space and Its Languages: Monolingual Canon, Plural Writings (Marie Vrinat-Nikolov, INALCO Paris, France)
4. Post-Liberation Literary Quests: From National Nostalgia to Social Anger and Modernist Dreams (Milena Kirova, Sofia University, Bulgaria)
5. Does Bulgarian Literature Have a Place within World Literature? (Amelia Licheva, Sofia University, Bulgaria)
Part II Geographies: Bulgarian Literature as Un/common Ground within and without
6. Europeanization or Lunacy: The Idea of World Literature and the Autonomization of the Bulgarian Literary Field (Boyko Penchev, Sofia University, Bulgaria)
7. Anthology Anxieties: Maturity and Mystification (Bilyana Kourtasheva, New Bulgarian University, Bulgaria)
8. Anomaly and Distext in Bulgarian Literature: Kiril Krastev (Vassil Vidinsky, Maria Kalinova, and Kamelia Spassova, Sofia University, Bulgaria)
9. Telling History in Many Ways: The Recent Past as Literary Plot (Ani Burova, Sofia University, Bulgaria)
10. Between the Local and the Global: Aporia in Miroslav Penkovâs East of the West (Mihaela P. Harper, Bilkent University, Turkey)
11. Bulgarian Literature: Beyond World Literature into Global Literature (Emiliya Dvoryanova, New Bulgarian University, Bulgaria)
Part III Economies: Bulgarian Literature on the Global Market
12. Tame Domesticity and Timid Trespasses: Travels and Exoduses (Todor Hristov, Sofia University, Bulgaria)
13. The End of Self-Colonization: Contemporary Bulgarian Literature and Its Global Condition (Alexander Kiossev, Sofia University, Bulgaria)
14. Bulgarians Writing Abroad: Import and (Re)export of the Outsourced Production (Dimitar Kambourov, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
15. In Between and Beyond: Diaspora Writers and Readers (Yana Hashamova, Ohio State University, USA)
16. Factotum and Fakir: The Translator of Bulgarian Literature into English (Angela Rodel, Translator, Bulgaria)
Part IV Genetics: Bulgarian Literatureâs Heredities, Affinities, and Prospects
17. Bulgarian Literatureâs Localism and (Im)mobility (Darin Tenev, Sofia University, Bulgaria)
18. 1963, 2016: Two Perspectives on Blaga Dimitrova (Julia Kristeva, Universit© de Paris VII, France)
19. Bulgarian Womenâs Literature: Plots and Stories (Miglena Nikolchina, Sofia University, Bulgaria)
20. Writing from the Saddest Place in the World (Georgi Gospodinov, Writer, Bulgaria)
21. Bulgarian Liveliness (Jean-Luc Nancy, European Graduate School, Switzerland)
22. Haide: On a Life that Feels Itself Live (A Response to Jean-Luc Nancyâs "Bulgarian Liveliness") (Cory Stockwell, Bilkent University, Turkey)
Afterword - Beyond "Minor Literatures": Reflections on World Literature (and on Bulgarian) (Galin Tihanov, Queen Mary University of London, UK)
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Notes on Contributors
Index
