WOMEN’S WRITING ACROSS TIME AND CULTURES
Ludmilla Kostova
Introduction....................................................................................................................................103
Viliana Georgieva
Identity and Cultural Shifts in The Tragedy of Mariam (1613).....................................................107
Galina Devedjieva
The Vampire’s Contemporaneity in Anne Rice’s
The Vampire Lestat (1985).............................................................................................................118
Aminat Emma Badmus
There is No Such Thing as Maternal Instinct: Unwanted Pregnancy, Infanticide,
and Child Abandonment in Sade Adeniran’s Imagine This (2008) and Fatou Diome’s
The Belly of the Atlantic (2003).....................................................................................................130
Ludmila Mindova
Gypsies in Dubravka Ugrešić‘s Fiction and Essays ......................................................................141
VARIA
Radmila Mladenova
The Aesthetics of Self-Reflexivity in Neil Jordan’s Film Mona Lisa............................................151
Maia Bolkvadze and Ruslan Baramidze
Pre-Election Discourse in Georgia: Presidential Candidates and the Linguistic
Devices They Use ..........................................................................................................................163
BOOK REVIEWS
Review Essay
Dimitar Dimitrov
Rival Byzantiums. Empire and Identity in Southeastern Europe by Diana Mishkova...................177
Nadezhda Mihaylova
The Varangians. In God’s Holy Fire by Sverrir Jakobsson............................................................192
Meglena Bodenska
The Nobel Prize and the Formation of Contemporary World Literature by Paul Tenngart ..........195