Overcoming and Surpassing: Ukrainian and Russian Literature in the post-Soviet Period.

The book, accepted for publication at ibidem-Press, focuses on questions of conceptualization of the post-Soviet literature in Russia and Ukraine as "postmodern." This comparative study discusses definitions of postmodernism in the West vs. in Russia and Ukraine, reviews the literary discussions in each country as to the postmodern condition, and offers interpretations of key works by Russian (V. Pelevin, V. Sorokin) and Ukrainian (O. Zabuzhko, Yu. Andrukhovych) authors who are generally considered "postmodern."