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Alternative kinships : economy and family in Russian modernism / / Jacob Emery



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Autore: Emery Jacob <1977-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Alternative kinships : economy and family in Russian modernism / / Jacob Emery Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: DeKalb, Illinois : , : NIU Press, , [2017]
©2017
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (193 pages)
Disciplina: 832.6
Soggetto topico: Families in literature
Nota di contenuto: 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 -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: According 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.    
Titolo autorizzato: Alternative kinships  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-5017-5672-9
1-60909-210-4
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910795110303321
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