ISBN:
9781644694855
Language:
English
Pages:
xxii, 234 Seiten
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Year of publication:
2020
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Keywords:
Geschichte
;
Körper
;
Literatur
;
Russisch
;
Juden
;
Russian literature / History and criticism
;
Jews in literature
;
Jews in popular culture
;
Human body in literature
;
Body image in literature
;
Jews / Russia / Social conditions
;
Body image in literature
;
Human body in literature
;
Jews in literature
;
Jews in popular culture
;
Jews / Social conditions
;
Russian literature
;
Russia
;
Criticism, interpretation, etc
;
Russisch
;
Literatur
;
Juden
;
Körper
;
Geschichte
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, the book argues that materiality also embodies fictional constructions that should be approached as a culture-specific material-semiotic interface"--
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