ISBN:
9781644694862
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xxii, 234 Seiten)
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Edition:
[Online-Ausgabe]
Year of publication:
2021
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Mondry, Henrietta Embodied differences
Keywords:
Body image in literature
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Human body in literature
;
Jews in literature
;
Jews in popular culture
;
Jews Social conditions
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Russian literature History and criticism
;
LITERARY CRITICISM / Jewish
;
Bely
;
Chekhov
;
Cultural Studies
;
Dostoevsky
;
Food
;
Gogol
;
Jewish
;
Judaism
;
Russian
;
Soviet art
;
antisemitism
;
blood libel
;
body
;
corporeality
;
embodied memory
;
ethnic cuisine
;
heritage
;
history
;
literature
;
materiality
;
prejudice
;
ritual murder trials
;
women
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Juden
;
Körper
;
Leiblichkeit
;
Russisch
;
Literatur
;
Geschichte 1880-2015
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
DOI:
10.1515/9781644694862
