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Exemplary Bodies: Constructing the Jew in Russian Culture, 1880s to 2008

Exemplary Bodies: Constructing the Jew in Russian Culture, 1880s to 2008

Mondry, Henrietta

Hardcover

Series: Borderlines: Russian and East European-Jewish Studies

Literary CriticismJudaismAnthropology

ISBN10: 1934843393
ISBN13: 9781934843390
Publisher: Academic Studies Pr
Published: Nov 1 2009
Pages: 300
Weight: 1.29
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Exemplary Bodies: Constructing the Jew in Russian Culture since 1880s 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 contemporary Russian society and culture.

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