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Exemplary bodies : constructing the Jew in Russian culture, since the 1880s /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Brighton, Mass. :
Academic Studies Press,
©2010.
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| Colección: | Borderlines (Boston, Mass.)
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 and racialist discourse in the 1880s, 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 Russian society |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (301 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-292) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9781618110268 1618110268 9781618118523 1618118528 9781934843390 1934843393 |