Bulgarian Literature as World Literature 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 Penkovs 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). Explores Bulgarian literatures advent from the standpoint of its internal relations to the world 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 Literatures Heredities Affinities and Prospects 17. Bulgarian Literatures Localism and (Im)mobility ( Darin Tenev Sofia University Bulgaria) 18. 1963 2016: Two Perspectives on Blaga Dimitrova (Julia Kristeva Université de Paris VII France) 19. Bulgarian Womens 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 Nancys 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) Select Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index.