Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Acknowledgments 8
4. Introduction 10
5. Part 1. Rethinking Identities
6. Introduction 19
7. Excerpts from Dehexing Sex
8. Perestroika or Domostroika? The Construction of Womanhood under Glasnost 26
9. Inscribing the Female Body in Women’s Fiction Stigmata and Stimulation 43
10. Liudmilla Petrushevskaya (b. 1938, Moscow)
11. Hygiene 53
12. The New Robinson Crusoes: A Chronicle of the End of the Twentieth Century 63
13. The Fountain House 75
14. Vera Pavlova (b. 1963, Moscow)
15. From If There is Something to Desire 84
16. Linor Goralik (b. 1975, Dnepropetrovsk)
17. They Talk 86
18. Slava Mogutin (b. 1974, Kemerovo)
19. Invitation to a Beheading 99
20. My First Man: Sentimental Vomit 114
21. Dreams Come True: Porn 117
22. We Were All Dying of the Same Diseases 119
23. The Triumph of the Family 121
24. The Death of Misha Beautiful 123
25. Oksana Robski (b. 1968, Moscow)
26. Excerpts from “Glamour a’la Oksana Robski” 134
27. Part 2. “Little Terror” and Traumatic Writing
28. Introduction 148
29. Excerpts from “In the State of Post-Soviet Aphasia: Symbolic Development in Contemporary Russia” 152
30. Excerpts from “Stories of the Undead in the Land of the Unburied: Magical Historicism in Contemporary Russian Fiction” 171
31. Lev Rubinshtein (b. 1947, Moscow)
32. Smoke of the Fatherland, or a Filter Gulag 188
33. Evgeny Grishkovets (b. 1967, Kemerovo)
34. How I Ate a Dog (excerpts) 192
35. Elena Fanailova (b. 1962, Voronezh)
36. From The Russian Version/“… Again they’re off for their Afghanistan…” 208
37. Lena, or the Poet and the People 212
38. The Presnyakov Brothers: Oleg (b. 1969, Sverdlovsk) and Vladimir (b. 1974, Sverdlovsk)
39. Terrorism (excerpts) 219
40. Andrei Rodionov (b. 1971)
41. “A beauty and junkie with long legs…” 251
42. “Once a month, he fought or got beat up…” 252
43. Excerpts from Overkill: Sex and Violence in Russian Popular Culture
44. Overkill: Bespredel and Gratuitous Violence 254
45. Honor among Thieves 260
46. Part 3. Writing Politics
47. Introduction 271
48. Vladimir Sorokin (b. 1955, Bykovo, Moscow Region)
49. “Russia is Slipping Back into an Authoritarian Empire”: Spiegel Interview with Vladimir Sorokin 278
50. Petrushka 285
51. Victor Pelevin (b. 1962, Moscow)
52. Critical Responses to Generation ‘P’ (Homo Zapiens, 1999)/Review of Generation “P” 298
53. Russian Literary Postmodernism in the 1990s 303
54. Survival of the Catchiest: Memes and Postmodern Russia 307
55. Eduard Limonov (b. 1943, Dzerzhinsk, Gorky region)
56. A Heroic Attitude to Life 313
57. Aleksandr Prokhanov (b. 1938, Tbilisi)
58. Mister Hexogen (excerpts) 318
59. Excerpts from “The Legitimization of Ultra-Right Discourse in Contemporary Russian Literature” 337
60. Sergei Lukyanenko (b. 1968, Karatau, Kazakhstan)
61. The Anti-Matrix (Take the Blue Pill) 349
62. Boris Akunin (Grigorii Chkhartishvili, b. 1956, Zestafoni, Georgia)
63. Excerpts from “A Country Resembling Russia”: The Use of History in Boris Akunin’s Detective Novels 360
64. Dmitrii Bykov (b. 1967, Moscow)
65. The Fall 374