03121nam 2200445 450 991079511030332120200304142952.01-5017-5672-91-60909-210-410.1515/9781501756726(CKB)4940000000000135(MiAaPQ)EBC6020883(DE-B1597)572285(DE-B1597)9781501756726(EXLCZ)99494000000000013520200304d2017 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierAlternative kinships economy and family in Russian modernism /Jacob EmeryDeKalb, Illinois :NIU Press,[2017]©20171 online resource (193 pages)NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies0-87580-751-8 Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction -- Chapter One: A Universe Akin -- Chapter Two: A World of Mirrors -- Chapter Three: Haunted Households -- Chapter Four: The Land of Milk and Money -- Afterword: Stock Exchanges -- Notes -- Bibliography -- IndexAccording to Marx, the family is the primal scene of the division of labor and the "germ" of every exploitative practice. In this insightful study, Jacob Emery examines the Soviet Union's programmatic effort to institute a global siblinghood of the proletariat, revealing how alternative kinships motivate different economic relations and make possible other artistic forms. A time in which literary fiction was continuous with the social fictions that organize the social economy, the early Soviet period magnifies the interaction between the literary imagination and the reproduction of labor onto a historical scale. Narratives dating back to the ancient world feature scenes in which a child looks into a mirror and sees someone else reflected there, typically a parent. In such scenes, two definitions of the aesthetic coincide: art as a fantastic space that shows an alternate reality and art as a mirror that reflects the world as it is. In early Soviet literature, mirror scenes illuminate the intersection of imagination and economy, yielding new relations destined to replace biological kinship—relations based in food, language, or spirit. These metaphorical kinships have explanatory force far beyond their context, providing a vantage point onto, for example, the Gothic literature of the early United States and the science fiction discourses of the postwar period. Alternative Kinships will appeal to scholars of Russian literature, comparative literature, and literary theory, as well as those interested in reconciling formalist and materialist approaches to culture.    Families in literatureFamilies in literature.832.6Emery Jacob1977-1521763MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910795110303321Alternative kinships3761142UNINA