Embodied Differences - The Jew’s Body and Materiality in Russian Literature and Culture

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, either to establish or to subvert dominant
cultural norms and stereotypes. It argues that materiality also embodies
fictional constructions that should be approached as a material-semiotic
interface.

List of contents

Table of ContentsA 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

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

Authors	Henrietta Mondry
Publisher	Ingram Publishers Services
Languages	English
Product format	Hardback
Released	31.01.2021
EAN	9781644694855
ISBN	978-1-64469-485-5
No. of pages	268
Subjects	Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Russia, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, Social and cultural history, Religious intolerance, persecution and conflict, Religious intolerance, persecution & conflict, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Religious aspects of sexuality, gender and relationships, Literary studies - fiction, novelists & prose writers, Gender studies - women

Product details

• Authors: Henrietta Mondry
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2021
• EAN: 9781644694855
• ISBN: 978-1-64469-485-5
• No. of pages: 268
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Russia, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, Social and cultural history, Religious intolerance, persecution and conflict, Religious intolerance, persecution & conflict, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Religious aspects of sexuality, gender and relationships, Literary studies - fiction, novelists & prose writers, Gender studies - women