

World literature is obviously so vast that any view of it cannot help but be partial the question then becomes how to reduce the complex task of understanding and describing world literature. Literatures as World Literature Can the literature of a specific country, author, or genre be used to approach the elusive concept of “world literature”? Literatures as World Literature takes a novel approach to world literature by analyzing specific constellations-according to language, nation, form, or theme-of literary texts and authors in their own world-literary dimensions. Part IV Genetics: Bulgarian Literature’s Heredities, Affinities, and Prospectsġ7 Bulgarian Literature’s Localism and (Im)mobility Darin Tenevġ8 1963, 2016: Two Perspectives on Blaga Dimitrova Julia Kristevaġ9 Bulgarian Women’s Literature: Plots and Stories Miglena NikolchinaĢ0 Writing from the Saddest Place in the World Georgi GospodinovĢ2 Haide: On a Life that Feels Itself Live (A Response to Jean-Luc Nancy’sĪfterword Beyond “Minor Literatures”: Reflections on World Literature Part III Economies: Bulgarian Literature and the Global Marketġ2 Tame Domesticity and Timid Trespasses: Travels and Exodusesġ3 The End of Self-Colonization: Contemporary Bulgarian LiteratureĪnd Its Global Condition Alexander Kiossevġ4 Bulgarians Writing Abroad: Import and (Re)export of theġ5 In Between and Beyond: Diaspora Writers and Readers Yana Hashamovaġ6 Factotum and Fakir: The Translator of Bulgarian Literature into

Vassil Vidinsky, Maria Kalinova, and Kamelia Spassovaĩ Telling History in Many Ways: The Recent Past as Literary Plotġ0 Between the Local and the Global: Aporia in Miroslav Penkov’sġ1 Bulgarian Literature: Beyond World Literature into Global Part II Geographies: Bulgarian Literature as Un/common Ground within and withoutĦ Europeanization or Lunacy: The Idea of World Literature and theĪutonomization of the Bulgarian Literary Field Boyko Penchevħ Anthology Anxieties: Maturity and Mystification Bilyana KourtashevaĨ Anomaly and Distext in Bulgarian Literature: Kiril Krastev Social Anger and Modernist Dreams Milena Kirovaĥ Does Bulgarian Literature Have a Place within World Literature? Part I Histories: In Search of a National Profile of World Literatureġ Medieval Bulgarian Literature as World Literature Diana AtanassovaĢ Bulgarian Literature in a “Romaic” Context Raymond Detrezģ The Bulgarian Literary Space and Its Languages: Monolingual Canon,Ĥ Post-Liberation Literary Quests: From National Nostalgia to Introduction Modern Bulgarian Literature: Being in the World Mihaela P. Foreword Bulgaria and Its Worlding: A Historical Perspective Maria Todorova
