Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliterations and Translations -- Preface -- 1 Cultural Globalization, the "Posts," and the Second World -- PART ONE: RUSSIA: POSTMODERN TRANSFORMATIONS OF THE COMMUNIST METROPOLY -- 2 Iosif Vissarionovich Pushkin, or The Transformational Momentum of Sots-Art -- 3 Travels through Heterotopia: The Other Worlds of Post-Soviet Russian Fiction -- 4 Transfigurations: Postmodern Articulations of Gender and Corporeality -- 5 The End of House Arrest: Queerness and Textuality in Contemporary Russia -- PART TWO: UKRAINE: BEING POSTCOLONIAL IN THE SECOND WORLD -- 6 Allegorical Journeys, or The Metamorphoses of Magic Realism -- 7 The (Post)colonial (Post)carnivalesque, or The Poetics and Politics of Bu-Ba-Bu -- 8 Confronting Traumas: The Gendered/Nationed Body as Narrative and Spectacle -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.