Henrietta Mondry

Embodied Differences (eBook, ePUB)

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

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Academic Studies Press
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. März 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781644694879
• Artikelnr.: 61099461

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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