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Alternative Kinships - Economy and Family in Russian Modernism (Paperback)
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Alternative Kinships - Economy and Family in Russian Modernism (Paperback)
Series: NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
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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.
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