Embodied Differences: The Jew’s Body and Materiality in Russian Literature and Culture Henrietta Mondry

Table Contents:

1. Cover
2. Title
3. Copyright
4. Contents
5. List of Illustrations
6. Introduction
7. Part One—The Other Body and Spaces For Matter
8. Chapter One: Locating Historically the Jew’s Body between Display and Transformation
9. Chapter Two: The Power of Meat: Defining Ethnicity and Masculinity in Gogol
10. Chapter Three: Valued Bodies and Spaces: Cross-Religious Encounters in Dostoevsky
11. Chapter Four: Intimate Spaces: The Modern Jewess in the Boudoir in Chekhov and Bely
12. Chapter Five: Animal Advocacy and Ritual Murder Trials
13. Chapter Six: Aphids and Other Undesirables: The Predatory Jew versus Soviet Art
14. Chapter Seven: Abject Bodies: Tactility, Dissection and Body Rites in Postmodernist Fiction
15. Part Two—Re/Active Embodiments and a Sense of Things
16. Chapter Eight: Women Writers Inventing Exotic Origins
17. Chapter Nine: Strange Ancestors in the House and Basement
18. Chapter Ten: On Feeding the Family: Constructing Jewishness through Nurture
19. Chapter Eleven: Materiality of Smell and the Cultural Constructs of Memory
20. Chapter Twelve: “An Edible Chronotope”: in Search of Jewish Heritage Food
21. Conclusion: The Power of Bodies and Senses that Matter
22. Bibliography
23. Index