Mondry Embodied Differences

The Jew’s Body and Materiality in Russian Literature and Culture
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-64469-487-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 268 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mondry, Henrietta

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religiöse Intoleranz, Verfolgung, Religionskonflikte
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien: Literatur & Kunst
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Geschichte des Judentums
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Slawische Literaturen Ostslawische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Table of ContentsA note on transliteration
List of illustrationsIntroductionPart 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 nurtureChapter Eleven. Materiality of smell and constructs of embodied memory
Chapter Twelve. “An edible chronotope”: in search of Jewish heritage foodConclusion: The Power of Bodies and Senses that MatterBibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Mondry Henrietta:
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.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.