Exemplary Bodies

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Academic Studies Press

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491_9781934843390

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This book explores the construction of the Jews physical andontological body in Russian culture as represented in literature,fi lm, and non-literary texts from the 1880s to the present. Withthe rise of the dominance of biological and racialist discourse inthe 1880s, the depiction of Jewish characters in Russian literaryand cultural productions underwent a signifi cant change, as thesecultural practices recast the Jew not only as an archetypal exoticand religious or class Other (as in Romanticism and realist writing),but as a biological Other whose acts, deeds, and thoughts weredetermined by racial differences. This Jew allegedly had physicaland psychological characteristics that were genetically determinedand that could not be changed by education, acculturation, conversionto Christianity, or change of social status. This stereotypehas become a stable archetype that continues to operate in contemporaryRussian society and culture.

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