Embodied Differences

The Jew's Body and Materiality in Russian Literature and Culture

Henrietta Mondry (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

268 Seiten

2021
Academic Studies Press (Verlag)
978-1-64469-485-5 (ISBN)

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Analyses 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.

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, the book argues that materiality also embodies fictional constructions that should be approached as a culture-specific material-semiotic interface.

Henrietta Mondry is Professor in the Department of Global, Cultural and Language Studies at the University of Canterbury. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand and has published widely on cultural history and literature. Her books include Populist Writers and the Jews and Exemplary Bodies: Constructing the Jew in Russian Culture.

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
Chapter Eight. Women writers inventing exotic origins
Chapter Nine. Strange ancestors in the house and in the basement
Chapter Ten. On feeding the family: constructing Jewishness through nurture
Chapter Eleven. Materiality of smell and constructs of embodied memory
Chapter Twelve. "An edible chronotope": in search of Jewish heritage food
Conclusion: The Power of Bodies and Senses that Matter
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	15.01.2021
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations
Verlagsort	Brighton
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	1-64469-485-9 / 1644694859
ISBN-13	978-1-64469-485-5 / 9781644694855
Zustand	Neuware