LEADER 03121nam 2200445 450 001 9910795110303321 005 20200304142952.0 010 $a1-5017-5672-9 010 $a1-60909-210-4 024 7 $a10.1515/9781501756726 035 $a(CKB)4940000000000135 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6020883 035 $a(DE-B1597)572285 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781501756726 035 $a(EXLCZ)994940000000000135 100 $a20200304d2017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aAlternative kinships $eeconomy and family in Russian modernism /$fJacob Emery 210 1$aDeKalb, Illinois :$cNIU Press,$d[2017] 210 4$dİ2017 215 $a1 online resource (193 pages) 225 0 $aNIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies 311 $a0-87580-751-8 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tCONTENTS -- $tIntroduction -- $tChapter One: A Universe Akin -- $tChapter Two: A World of Mirrors -- $tChapter Three: Haunted Households -- $tChapter Four: The Land of Milk and Money -- $tAfterword: Stock Exchanges -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aAccording 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.     606 $aFamilies in literature 615 0$aFamilies in literature. 676 $a832.6 700 $aEmery$b Jacob$f1977-$01521763 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910795110303321 996 $aAlternative kinships$93761142 997 $aUNINA