The Slave Soul of Russia : : Moral Masochism and the Cult of Suffering / / Daniel Rancour-Laferriere.
Why, asks Daniel Rancour-Laferriere in this controversial book, has Russia been a country of suffering? Russian history, religion, folklore, and literature are rife with suffering. The plight of Anna Karenina, the submissiveness of serfs in the 16th and 17th centuries, ancient religious tracts empha...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [1995] ©1995 |
| Year of Publication: | 1995 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Some Historical Highlights
- 3. Two Key Words in the Vocabulary of Russian Masochism
- 4. Masochism in Russian Literature
- 5. Ontogeny and the Cultural Context
- 6. The Russian Fool and His Mother
- 7. Is the Slave Soul of Russia a Gendered Object?
- 8. Born in a Bania: The Masochism of Russian Bathhouse Rituals
- 9. Masochism and the Collective
- 10. Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index