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Constructing the Stalinist Body: Fictional Representations of Corporeality in the Stalinist s
by Keith A. Livers
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Lexington Books (2004-11-28)
ISBN: 0739107739
EAN: 9780739107737
Dewey Decimal #: 891.709372
Hardcover: 230 pages
SKU: 080527226
Condition: Fine
Comments: 0739107739 New, never read, pages clean, binding is tight, may have wear or damage on cover. New, never read, may have minor wear on cover.
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Product Description
Constructing the Stalinist Body brings together contemporary body theory with studies on Stalinist ideology and cultural mythology in order to elucidate the complex problem of individual authorship within the context of Stalinist ideology of the s and s. Author Keith A. Livers examines the ways in which Andrei Platonov, Mikhail Zoshchenko, Lev Kassil and other authors used corporeal imagery as a means of both resisting and furthering the idea of a Stalinist utopia and the ideologically purified body politic it aspired to produce. The final chapter of the book looks at collective and popular representations of the Moscow subway (completed in ), which was one of the most important construction projects of the s and was at the same time portrayed as a microcosm of the ideal world of socialism to come.
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