Exemplary bodies : constructing the Jew in Russian culture, since the 1880s

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Exemplary Bodies: Constructing the Jew in Russian Culture, 1880s to 2008 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 1880s to the present. With the rise of the dominance of biological...

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Main Author: Mondry, Henrietta
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Brighton, Mass. : Academic Studies Press, ©2010.
Series:Borderlines (Boston, Mass.)
Subjects:
Jews in popular culture > Russia (Federation)
Human body in popular culture.
Body image > Social aspects > Russia (Federation)
Russian literature > History and criticism.
Russia (Federation) > Intellectual life.
Russia (Federation) > Ethnic relations.
Online Access:Full text (Open Access)
Table of Contents:
  • Russian anthropological and biological sciences and Jewish 'race, ' 1860s-1930
  • 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 to the present
  • 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.

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