Mayakovsky on the Land
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12523731 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ludmila Shleyfer Lavine (Russian Studies, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | 2-3 |
| Pages | 212-231 |
| Publication date | 2021-09-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | East European Jewish Affairs (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1350-1674 • E-ISSN: 1743-971X |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13501674.2022.2088361 |
| OpenAlex | W4313171154 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 8 |
It is surprising that Vladimir Mayakovsky, the poet whose self-proclaimed mission was to give city streets a language, turned to publicizing farming collectives. No less noteworthy is the fact that this poet of internationalism worked on the ethnocentric project of promoting Jewish agrarian communities in Crimea. This article addresses Mayakovsky’s collaboration on the film Evrei na zemle (Jews on the Land, 1927), and his poems “Evrei (Tovarishcham iz OZETa)” (Jew [To Comrades from OZET], 1926) and “‘Zhid’” (“Yid,” 1928). I argue that in these works the poet reshuffles the svoi–chuzhoi (us-versus-them) dichotomy. Using the Moses story of exile and liberation, the poet both domesticates Jews through features of the dominant culture and marginalizes antisemites by ascribing to them the pejorative markers of the Jewish stereotype
Agrarian society · Agriculture · Americanization · Archaeology · Art · Ethnocentrism · Judaism · Land of Israel · Literature · Pejorative · Poetry · Political science · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Jewish Identity and Society · Law · Soviet and Russian History
| Highly cited | No |
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