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.
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.
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.
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Table of 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 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
Table of 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 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
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