[ABraidotti]

> what I feel are the worst parts of the mythologized "Russian soul."

I think I understand. I like reading postcolonial literary criticism because it asks us to consider any kind of national literary identification with skepticism. So I gotta ask: when you were growing up, what American literature did you encounter and what did you think of it?

FWIW I think I like Gogol's and Maxim Gorky's short stories most of all the Russian lit I've read.