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 Penkov's 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) 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 Literature's Heredities, Affinities, and Prospects 17. Bulgarian Literature's Localism and (Im)mobility (Darin Tenev, Sofia University, Bulgaria) 18. 1963, 2016: Two Perspectives on Blaga Dimitrova (Julia Kristeva, Universite de Paris VII, France) 19. Bulgarian Women's 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 Nancy's 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