Constructing the Stalinist Body

Fictional Representations of Corporeality in the Stalinist 1930s

Keith A. Livers (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

276 Seiten

2009
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-0-7391-3525-9 (ISBN)

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Constructing the Stalinist Body brings together contemporary body theory with studies on Stalinist ideology and cultural mythology in order to elucidate the complex problem of individual authorship within the context of Stalinist ideology of the 1930s and '40s. Author Keith A. Livers examines the ways in which Andrei Platonov, Mikhail Zoshchenko, Lev Kassil' and other authors used corporeal imagery as a means of both resisting and furthering the idea of a Stalinist utopia and the ideologically purified body politic it aspired to produce. The final chapter of the book looks at collective and popular representations of the Moscow subway (completed in 1935), which was one of the most important construction projects of the 1930s and was at the same time portrayed as a microcosm of the ideal world of Socialism to come.

Keith A. Livers is assistant professor of Russian at the University of Texas at Austin.

Chapter 1 Stalinism Embodied
Chapter 2 Turning Men into Women: Andrei Platonov in the 1930s
Chapter 3 Mikhail Zoshchenko: Engineering the Stalinist Soul
Chapter 4 Lev Kassil': The Soccer Match as Stalinist Ritual
Chapter 5 Conquering the Underworld: The Spectacle of the Stalinist Metro
Chapter 6 Stalinist Bodies on Display

Erscheint lt. Verlag	16.2.2009
Sprache	englisch
Maße	154 x 229 mm
Gewicht	413 g
Themenwelt	Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-7391-3525-2 / 0739135252
ISBN-13	978-0-7391-3525-9 / 9780739135259
Zustand	Neuware