Russian Experimental Fiction: Resisting Ideology after Utopia

Contents\nPreface and Acknowledgments\nNote on Transliteration and Translation\nList of Abbreviations\nPART ONE: EXPERIMENTAL FICTION AGAINST IDEOLOGICAL FIXATION\nCHAPTER ONE. Meta-utopian Writing: The Problem of Utopia as Ideology\nCHAPTER TWO. Publishing the Dystopian Heritage: The Glasnost Debate about Literary Experiment and Utopian Ideology\nPART TWO: THE META-UTOPIAN EXPERIMENT IN FICTION: ELEMENTS OF LITERARYAND IDEOLOGICAL REANIMATION\nCHAPTER THREE. Charting Meta-utopia: Chronotopes of Disorientation\nCHAPTER FOUR. Science, Ideology, and the Structure of Meta-utopian Narrative\nCHAPTER FIVE. The Meta-utopian Language Problem, or Utopia as a Bump on a -log-\nCHAPTER SIX. Meta-utopian Consciousness\nPART THREE: THE READER IN THE TEXT: POPULARIZING THE META-UTOPIAN MENTALITY\nCHAPTER SEVEN. Making Meta-utopia Accessible: Zinoviev\'s The Radiant Future\nCHAPTER EIGHT. Utopia, Imagination, and Memory: The Strugatsky Brothers\' The Ugly Swans, Tendriakov\'s A Potshot at Mirages, and Aksenov\'s The Island of Crimea\nCHAPTER NINE. Parody of Popular Forms in Iskander\'s Rabbits and Boa Constrictors and Voinovich\'s Moscow 2042\nCHAPTER TEN. Play with Closure in Petrushevskaia\'s \"The New Robinsons\" and Kabakov\'s \"The Deserter\"\nCONCLUSION. The Utopian Impulse after 1968: Russian Meta-utopian Fiction in a European Context\nBibliography\nIndex