Embodied Differences : The Jew’s Body and Materiality in Russian Literature and Culture
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| Title: | Embodied Differences : The Jew’s Body and Materiality in Russian Literature and Culture |
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| Description: | 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. |
| Authors: | Henrietta Mondry |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Jews in popular culture, Jews in literature, Russian literature--History and criticism, Jews--Russia--Social conditions, Body image in literature, Human body in literature |
| Categories: | LITERARY CRITICISM / Jewish, HISTORY / Social History, LITERARY CRITICISM / Russian & Soviet, RELIGION / Judaism / History, |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | 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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| ISBN: | 9781644694855 9781644694862 9781644694879 |
