Esther PEEREN, Intersubjectivities and Popular Culture. Bakhtin and Beyond, Palo Alto, Stanford University Press (Cultural Memory in the Present), 2007, 304 p.
ISBN 0804756694
RÉSUMÉ
Peeren's book brings the work of Russian literary theorist MikhailBakhtin 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 artifactsand events is designed to show the continuing relevance of Bakhtin'sideas for present-day literary and cultural studies and to theorize theconstruction and political assertion of gender, racial, and sexualidentities as fundamentally intersubjective. With Intersubjectivities and Popular Culture,Peeren models a new approach to Bakhtin that moves away from the studyof Bakhtin's sources and historical context in order to situate him inrelation to present-day debates about identity and agency. By workingthrough various concepts—the chronotope, performativity, the look andthe gaze, the cultural addressee, accents and speech genres,translation, and territory and versioning—she demonstrates howBakhtin's ideas are tested, transformed, and extended by theirinteraction with specific instances of popular culture and with theother theoretical frameworks those instances invoke.
TABLE DES MATIÈRES
Acknowledgments
Intersubjectivities and Popular Culture : An Introduction
Chronotopic Identities
Chronotopic Belonging
The Intersubjective Eye : The Look Versus de Gaze
The Intersubjective Voice : Dialogism and the Cultural Addressee
Resignifications : Accents and Speech Genres
Identities in Translation
Territories of Identity
Versioning Identities
Afterword
Notes
Works Cited
Index
BIOGRAPHIE
Esther Peeren is Lecturer in Comparative and (Trans-)CulturalAnalysis in the Department of Languages and Literatures at theUniversity of Amsterdam. She completed her Ph.D. at the AmsterdamSchool for Cultural Analysis and has published articles on queertelevision, the chronotopic dimension of diaspora, and the translationtheories of Mikhail Bakhtin and Jean Laplanche. Her current researchexplores the spectral dimension of gender and race identities incontemporary literature, film, and television.