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Alternative Kinships: Economy and Family in Russian Modernism
Jacob Emery
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Hardcover. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVU; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Northern Illinois University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Dekalb, IL, United States
ISBN
9780875807515
SKU
V9780875807515
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About Jacob Emery
Jacob Emery was born in Moscow the small city in Idaho, not the large city in Russia and is assistant professor of Slavic and comparative literature at Indiana University. His work on literature and aesthetics has appeared in venues including Comparative Literature, New Left Review, Science Fiction Studies, and Slavic Review.
Reviews for Alternative Kinships: Economy and Family in Russian Modernism
This is an excellent book; it will be very important for the field of Russian studies. Emery is a scholar to watch.
Eliot Borenstein, New York University Jacob Emery is extremely erudite and summons an impressive array of philosophical and theoretical texts to develop his argumentation, drawing upon a deep knowledge of ... Read more
Eliot Borenstein, New York University Jacob Emery is extremely erudite and summons an impressive array of philosophical and theoretical texts to develop his argumentation, drawing upon a deep knowledge of ... Read more