Exemplary bodies : constructing the Jew in Russian culture, since the 1880s / by Henrietta Mondry.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mondry, Henrietta.

Series:

Borderlines (Boston, Mass.)

Borderlines : Russian and East European Jewish studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews in popular culture--Russia (Federation).

Jews in popular culture.

Human body in popular culture--Russia (Federation).

Human body in popular culture.

Body image--Social aspects--Russia (Federation).

Body image.

Russian literature--History and criticism.

Russian literature.

Russia (Federation)--Intellectual life.

Russia (Federation).

Russia (Federation)--Ethnic relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (301 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Brighton, Mass. : Academic Studies Press, c2010.

Academic Studies Press, [2016]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Exemplary Bodies: Constructing the Jew in Russian Culture since 1880's explores the construction of the Jew's physical and ontological body in Russian culture as represented in literature, film, and non-literary texts from the 1880's to the present. With the rise of the dominance of biological and racialist discourse in the 1880's, the depiction of Jewish characters in Russian literary and cultural productions underwent a significant change, as these cultural practices recast the Jew not only as an archetypal "exotic" and religious or class Other (as in Romanticism and realist writing), but as a biological Other whose acts, deeds, and thoughts were determined by racial differences. This Jew allegedly had physical and psychological characteristics that were genetically determined and that could not be changed by education, acculturation, conversion to Christianity, or change of social status. This stereotype has become a stable archetype that continues to operate in contemporary Russian society and culture.

Contents:

Russian anthropological and biological sciences and Jewish race

Stereotypes of pathology: the medicalization of the Jewish body by Anton Chekhov, 1880s

Carnal Jews of the fin-de-siècle: Vasily Rozanov, the Jewish body, and incest

Ilya Ehrenburg and his picaresque Jewish bodies of the 1920s

Criminal bodies and love of the yellow metal: the Jewish male and Stalinist culture, 1930s-1950s

Sadists' bodies of the anti-Zionist campaign era: 1960s-1970s

Glasnost and the uncensored sexed body of the Jew

The repatriated body: a Russian Jewish woman writer in Israel or the corporeal fantasy of Dina Rubina, 1990s-2000s

The Jewish patient: Alexander Goldstein and the postmodern Russian Jewish body in Israel, 2000s

The real Jewish bodies of oligarchs: important Jewish personalities and post-Soviet corporophobia

The post-Soviet assault on the Jew's body: the new racial science in the 2000s.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-292) and indexes.

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ISBN:

9781618118523

1618118528

9781618110268

1618110268

OCLC:

769188625

Access Restriction:

Open access Unrestricted online access