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Embodied Differences : The Jew’s Body and Materiality in Russian Literature and Culture / Henrietta Mondry.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Boston, MA : Academic Studies Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2021Description: 1 online resource (268 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781644694862
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 891.709/3529924 23/eng/20231120
LOC classification:
  • PG2988.J4 M66 2020
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- A Note on Transliteration -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- Part One. The Other Body and Spaces for Matter -- Chapter One: Locating Historically the Jew’s Body between Display and Transformation -- Chapter Two: The Power of Meat: Defining Ethnicity and Masculinity in Gogol -- Chapter Three: Valued Bodies and Spaces: Cross-Religious Encounters in Dostoevsky -- Chapter Four: Intimate Spaces: The Modern Jewess in the Boudoir in Chekhov and Bely -- Chapter Five: Animal Advocacy and Ritual Murder Trials -- Chapter Six: Aphids and Other Undesirables: The Predatory Jew versus Soviet Art -- Chapter Seven: Abject Bodies: Tactility, Dissection and Body Rites in Postmodernist Fiction -- Part Two. Re/Active Embodiments and a Sense of Things -- Introduction -- Chapter Eight: Women Writers Inventing Exotic Origins -- Chapter Nine: Strange Ancestors in the House and Basement -- Chapter Ten: On Feeding the Family: Constructing Jewishness through Nurture -- Chapter Eleven: Materiality of Smell and the Cultural Constructs of Memory -- Chapter Twelve: “An Edible Chronotope”: in Search of Jewish Heritage Food -- Conclusion: The Power of Bodies and Senses that Matter -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: This book analyzes the ways in which literary works and cultural discourses employ the construct of the Jew’s body in relation to the material world in order either to establish and reinforce, or to subvert and challenge, dominant cultural norms and stereotypes. It examines the use of physical characteristics, embodied practices, tacit knowledge and senses to define the body taxonomically as normative, different, abject or mimetically desired. Starting from the works of Gogol and Dostoevsky through to contemporary Russian-Jewish women’s writing, broadening the scope to examining the role of objects, museum displays and the politics of heritage food, the book argues that materiality can embody fictional constructions that should be approached on a culture-specific basis.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- A Note on Transliteration -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- Part One. The Other Body and Spaces for Matter -- Chapter One: Locating Historically the Jew’s Body between Display and Transformation -- Chapter Two: The Power of Meat: Defining Ethnicity and Masculinity in Gogol -- Chapter Three: Valued Bodies and Spaces: Cross-Religious Encounters in Dostoevsky -- Chapter Four: Intimate Spaces: The Modern Jewess in the Boudoir in Chekhov and Bely -- Chapter Five: Animal Advocacy and Ritual Murder Trials -- Chapter Six: Aphids and Other Undesirables: The Predatory Jew versus Soviet Art -- Chapter Seven: Abject Bodies: Tactility, Dissection and Body Rites in Postmodernist Fiction -- Part Two. Re/Active Embodiments and a Sense of Things -- Introduction -- Chapter Eight: Women Writers Inventing Exotic Origins -- Chapter Nine: Strange Ancestors in the House and Basement -- Chapter Ten: On Feeding the Family: Constructing Jewishness through Nurture -- Chapter Eleven: Materiality of Smell and the Cultural Constructs of Memory -- Chapter Twelve: “An Edible Chronotope”: in Search of Jewish Heritage Food -- Conclusion: The Power of Bodies and Senses that Matter -- Bibliography -- Index

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This book analyzes the ways in which literary works and cultural discourses employ the construct of the Jew’s body in relation to the material world in order either to establish and reinforce, or to subvert and challenge, dominant cultural norms and stereotypes. It examines the use of physical characteristics, embodied practices, tacit knowledge and senses to define the body taxonomically as normative, different, abject or mimetically desired. Starting from the works of Gogol and Dostoevsky through to contemporary Russian-Jewish women’s writing, broadening the scope to examining the role of objects, museum displays and the politics of heritage food, the book argues that materiality can embody fictional constructions that should be approached on a culture-specific basis.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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