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Svitlana (Lana) Krys is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at MacEwan University, Canada
Maryna Romanets is Professor of English at the University of Northern British Columbia, Canada
Introduction to Russo-Soviet imperialist hauntings— Maryna Romanets
I Art, performance, and film
1 The ghosts of the Soviet past in Natalia Vorozhbyt’s Take the Rubbish Out, Sasha— Oleksandra Wallo
2 Refusing to die: Neo-Gothic political fiction and post-Yugoslav cultural production— Mirjana Stošic3 Post-Soviet apocalypse in Gothic fiction and Gothic politics— Dina Khapaeva
II Gender, identity, and sexuality
4 Haunted in desolation: Queering the post-Soviet Latvian Gothic— Karlis Verdinš
5 Sophia Andrukhovych’s Felix Austria:The postcolonial neo-Gothic and Ukraine’s search for itself— Vitaly Chernetsky
6 Feminism as a Gothic “thoughtcrime”: Contextualizing Alma by Izabela Filipiak— Dorota Filipczak
III Spectral geographies, borderland, diaspora
7 The Eastern European monster reclaimed: Finding a voice in a postsocialist, postcolonial world— Eva R. Hudecova
8 Andriy Lyubka’s Carbide: Ukrainian democratic reforms through a dark glass— Svitlana (Lana) Krys
9 The madwoman on the farm: Witches in Ukrainian Canadian literature— Lindy Ledohowski
IV (Post)communism, totalitarianism, historical trauma
10 Spectrality, necropolitics, and Gothic topography of the city in Nikolai Grozni’s Wunderkind— Roberto Adinolfi and Maryna Romanets
11 Institutional Gothic in the novels of Vladimir Sharov and Evgenii Vodolazkin— Muireann Maguire
12 The tomb of the reluctant tyrant: Uncanny imaginings of totalitarianism in Ismail Kadare’s The Pyramid — Adriana Raducanu
Editors’ postscript: Cradle — Svitlana (Lana) Krysand Maryna Romanets
Bibliography
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