TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mondry, Henrietta
AB  - 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.
DO  - 10.2307/j.ctt21h4wgs
ID  - OAPEN ID: 1006477
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1135854174
KW  - Literature
KW  - Literary criticism
KW  - Russian studies
KW  - Jewish studies
KW  - Film studies
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/0e0f3925-320d-4eef-9f1a-3f626695e0dd/1006477.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/23666
PB  - Academic Studies Press
PY  - 2009-11-01
SN  - 9781618118523
TI  - Exemplary Bodies : Constructing the Jew in Russian Culture, 1880s to 2008
ER  - 
