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"Table of Contents In Place of Introduction: a Few Words on the Author’s Self-positioning I. Literature and Globalization 1. Cultural dimensions and the future of the alternative theories of globalization 1.1. Critical Cosmopolitanism 1.2. The “Other” in Alternative Theories of Globalization 1.3. Transculturation/hybridization 2. From Postmodernism to Postcoloniality and to Critical Theories of Globalization 3. A Janus-Faced Empire 2.1. National and Ethnic in Russian Cultural Imaginary 2.2. Russia as the Border and Russia from the Point of View of Border Thinking 2.3. Can there be a Multiculturalism in Eastern/Central Europe and in Russia ? 3.4. An Other in Russian Culture 3.5.Producing Knowledge: Post-soviet Humanities and Social Sciences in the grip of Eurocentrism 3.6. Renaissance of Eurasianism — a Russian Alternative to Globalization ? 3.7. The Myth of Synthesis and Lack of Mediation in the Russian Humanities 3.8. Postcolonial or Transcultural ? 4. The Effect of Globalization on Literature and Literary Criticism 4.1. The Culture-centrism of Contemporary Literary Studies ? 4.2. Other Aspects of Globalization Influence on the Literary Process 4.3. Between Unification and Transculturation. The Correlation of the “Old” Literariness and the “New” Internet and Mass Culture Communicative Models 4.4. From the Kantian Sublime to the Sweat Shop Sublime and the Aesthetics of Transculturation. The Post-Soviet Sublime 4.5. From National and World Literature to Global Trans- (Post)national, Multilingual Literature 4.6. Globalization and the Concept of World Literature 4.7. From the Model of Similarity to the model of Difference 4.8. The Changing Role of Language in Trans-National Literature 4.9. The Commercial Aspect in the Production and Consumption of Literature II. The Problem of Subjectivity in the Post-Soviet Cultural imaginary and Fiction 1. A Ricochet of Returned Gazes 2. The Colonizer and the Colonized Relating to Each Other 3. Metamorphosis 3.1. David Dabydeen’s Metamorphoses 4. An Exercise in Comparative Anthropology: World as Seen by a Russian “Other” (V. Yerofeyev’s Five Rivers of Life) 5. Pavel Krusanov’s “Biting” Angel. 6. A Speaking Subaltern. Field Studies of Postcolonial Colonialism 7. The Little Colonizer and His Gaze Returned: “Who Flies Full Gallop Along the Dzhangals” 8. Hybrid as an Absent Actor. A. Mamedov’s Frau Shram 9. The Ex-Colonizer as an “Other” 9.1. The New Crime and Punishment. J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace 9.2. “Farukh Sits High on the Back of a Sheep”… or, “Recite the Alphabet !” III. Being Never and Nowhere 1. Meta-Chronotope of In-between-ness 1.1. Margaret Lawrence’s “Eau D’Exile” 1.2. Chronotope of In-between-ness in Post-soviet Fiction 1.3. “Deception of Space” 1.4. “Everything that is not Loved, will Disappear”: Peter Carey’s Cartography 1.5. Time in the Chronotope of In-between-ness 1.6. Genre in the Chronotope of In-between-ness 2. The Chronotope of the City 2.1. The Defeated Capital. Orhan Pamuk’s Istanbul 2.2. Afanasy Mamedov’s “Bascow” 2.3. Moscow as a Phantasm. Y. Andrukhovich’s Moscoviada 2.4. The City of Happiness and Joy. Andrey Volos’ Khurramabad 3. Empire as a Non-Existent Space ? 3.1. Between the Elusive Hong Kong and non-existent Britain. Paul Theroux’s Kowloon Tong 3.2. Jack Magg’s London IV. The Aesthetics of Transculturation ? Discursive and Linguistic Aspects of Post-Soviet Fiction 1. Russian Language — a Colonizer ? 2. Between the Canonical Counter-Discourse and Russian Postmodernism 2.1. Embodying the Metaphor in the Ritual. V. Sorokin’s Norm 3. The Poetics of Allegory. Historical Allegories in Post-Soviet Fiction 3.1. What to Save from the House on Fire ? T. Tolstaya’s Kys as a Palimpsest 3.2. The (Post)imperial Cartographer. The Spatial History of Empire by Peter Vile 3.3. Between Dumas and Herodotus. V. Butromejev’s Novel of the Stolen and Restored History V. Conclusion Notes Bibliography"