By bringing together diverse erotomaniac fictions, Maryna Romanets charts the ways in which they are embedded in the processes of Ukraine's cultural decolonization.

Maryna Romanets is Professor in the Department of English at the University of Northern British Columbia, Canada. She is the author of Anamorphosic Texts and Reconfigured Visions: Improvised traditions in Contemporary Ukrainian and Irish Literature and co-editor of Beauty, Violence, Representation.

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1 Introduction to Erotomaniac Fictions

2 Nationalist-Masochist Woman, Impotent Man, and Counter-Erotics: Pol'ovi doslidzhennia z ukraïns'koho seksu [Fieldwork in Ukrainian Sex]

3 A Guide to the Art of (Post-)Soviet Pleasure: Pokalchuk's Taxonomies

4 Carnivalesque Mystifications, National Icon, and Orientalist Dreams: Zhytiie haremnoie [Life in the Harem] as Historiographic Metafiction

5 The Monstrosity of Desire and the Delights of Carnal Hell: Shevchuk's

Neo-Baroque Angst

6 Indecent Transpositions and Displacements of the National Imaginary by the Kapranov Brothers

7 Pornographized Desecration of the Socialist Realist Canon: Poderviansky the Bricoleur

8 Postscript

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