Intersubjectivities and Popular Culture
Subtitle: Bakhtin and Beyond (Cultural Memory in the Present)
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: September 18, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780804756693
Subjects: Social & cultural anthropology; Topics in philosophy; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Semiotics & Theory; Literary Criticism & Collections / Theory; 20th century; History; Motion pictures; Popular culture; Television programs; United States
Description: "Peeren's book brings the work of Russian literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin to bear on contemporary expressions of popular culture, including the novel and television series Sex and the City, the television series Queer as Folk, the films Nell and Flawless, and London's annual Notting Hill Carnival. This selection of artifacts and events is designed to show the continuing relevance of Bakhtin's ideas for present-day literary and cultural studies, and to theorize that the construction and political assertion of gender, racial, and sexual identities is fundamentally intersubjective. With Intersubjectivities and Popular Culture, Peeren models a new approach to Bakhtin that moves away from the study of Bakhtin's sources and historical context in order to situate him in relation to current debates about identity and agency.

By working through various concepts - the chronotope, performativity, the look and the gaze, the cultural addressee, accents and speech genres, translation, and territory and versioning - she demonstrates how Bakhtin's ideas are tested, transformed, and extended by their interaction with specific instances of popular culture and with the other theoretical frameworks those instances invoke."--BOOK JACKET.