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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.

Carnival --- Motion pictures --- Popular culture --- Television programs --- 316.728.1 --- 316.772.22 --- 82.0 --- 82.0 Literatuurtheorie --- Literatuurtheorie --- 316.728.1 Popculture. Popular culture. Volkscultuur. --- Popculture. Popular culture. Volkscultuur. --- Fasnacht --- Fastnacht --- Mardi Gras (Festival) --- Pre-Lenten festivities --- Festivals --- Masks --- Shrove Tuesday --- 316.772.22 Audio-visuele, visuele communicatie. Beeldcommunicatie--(communicatiesociologie) --- Audio-visuele, visuele communicatie. Beeldcommunicatie--(communicatiesociologie) --- History --- Popculture. Popular culture. Volkscultuur --- Bakhtin, M. M. --- Bachtin, Michail, --- Bachtin, Michail M., --- Baxtin, Mixail Mixailovič, --- Bakhtine, Mikhaïl, --- Bajtin, Mijail, --- Bakhtin, Mikhail Mikhaĭlovich --- Bakhtin, Mikhail Mikhaĭlovich, --- Bahŭchʻin, --- Bahtyin, M. M. --- Bahtyin, Mihail Mihajlovics, --- Bahtin, M. M., --- Bachtinas, M. --- Bachtinas, Michailas, --- Бахтин, М. М. --- Bahtin, Mihail, --- Bakhtin, Mikhail, --- Бахтин, Михаил Михайлович, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Bakhtin, Mikhayil, --- BAKHTINE (MIKHAIL), 1895-1975 --- Culture populaire --- CULTURE DE MASSE --- CINEMA AMERICAIN --- TELEVISION AMERICAINE --- CARNAVALS --- CRITIQUE ET INTERPRETATION --- 20e siècle --- GRANDE-BRETAGNE --- HISTOIRE

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Alterity is not a mere synonym of difference; what it signifies is otherness, a distinction or separation that can entail similarity as well as difference. The articles collected here explore ways to define, situate and negotiate alterity in a manner that does not do away with the other through negation or neutralization but that instead engages alterity as a reconfiguring of identities that keeps them open to change, to a becoming without horizon. Alterity and its situated negotiations with identity are configured through the body, through the psyche and through translational politics. From critical readings of angels, specters, grotesque bodies, online avatars, Sex and the City , pornography in French literature, Australian billboard art, Pina Bausch, Adrian Piper, Kashmiri poetry, contemporary German fiction, Jacques Brault and Northern-Irish poetry, there emerges a vision of identities as multi-faceted constructions that are continually being transformed by the various alterities with which they intersect and which they must actively engage in order to function effectively in the social, political, and aesthetic realm.

Other (Philosophy) --- Representation (Philosophy) --- Representationalism (Philosophy) --- Representationism (Philosophy) --- Alterity (Philosophy) --- Otherness (Philosophy) --- Culture --- Philosophy --- Other (Philosophy). --- Representation (Philosophy).

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In the twenty-first century, the terms “representation” and “identity” seem to have gone out of fashion. The essays collected here, however, seek to demonstrate the extent to which they continue to matter in the social, political and cultural struggles waged by marginalized communities across our postcolonial and globalizing world. The volume starts by offering contingent readings of prominent identity-related concepts – hybridity, insularity, the west, ubuntu, and orientalism – which ask how these concepts translate into practical, situated ways of grappling with the legacies of colonialism. It continues by exploring the relational articulation of collective identities and their histories (as shared rather than competing), and the way origin narratives and notions of indigeneity, in contexts as diverse as Namibia, Uruguay and Bolivia, function not as fixed roots, but as constructed representations that are manipulated according to the demands of the present. Finally, tradition, too, emerges as open to continuous strategic re-invention in contributions dealing with female agency in a Hindu ritual, peasant understandings of modernity in Zimbabwe, the resurgence of Chinese culture in Indonesia, and André Brink’s rewriting of South African history.

Group identity. --- Identity (Psychology). --- Identity politics. --- Representation (Philosophy). --- Identity (Psychology) --- Representation (Philosophy) --- Representationalism (Philosophy) --- Representationism (Philosophy) --- Politics of identity --- Personal identity --- Collective identity --- Community identity --- Cultural identity --- Social identity --- Political aspects --- Culture --- Philosophy --- Political participation --- Personality --- Self --- Ego (Psychology) --- Individuality --- Social psychology --- Collective memory

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"The Spectralities Reader is the first volume to collect the rich scholarship produced in the wake of the "spectral turn" of the early 1990s, which saw ghosts and haunting conjured as compelling analytical and methodological tools across the humanities and social sciences. Surveying the past twenty years from an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural perspective, the Reader displays the wide range of concerns spectrality, in its diverse elaborations, has been called upon to elucidate. The disjunctions produced by globalization, the ungraspable quality of modern media, the convolutions of subject formation (in terms of gender, race, and sexuality), the elusiveness of spaces and places, and the lingering presences and absences of memory and history have all been reconceived by way of the spectral. A primer for the wide readership engaged with cultural interpretations of ghosts and haunting that go beyond the confines of the fictional and supernatural, The Spectralities Reader includes twenty-five groundbreaking texts by prominent contemporary thinkers, from Jacques Derrida and Gayatri Spivak to Avery Gordon and Arjun Appadurai, as well as a general introduction and six section introductions by the editors."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Philosophy and psychology of culture --- cultuurfilosofie --- filosofie --- mediatheorie --- spoken --- spiritisme --- horror --- gender studies --- 130.2 --- Ghosts in literature. --- Supernatural in literature. --- Other (Philosophy) in literature. --- Culture --- Philosophy. --- Ghosts in literature --- Other (Philosophy) in literature --- Supernatural in literature --- Philosophy

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"Haunting has long been a compelling element in popular culture, and has become an influential category in academic engagements with politics, economics, and aesthetics. While recent scholarship has used psychoanalysis and the Gothic as frameworks with which to study haunting, this volume seeks to situate ghosts in the cultural imagination. The chapters in Popular Ghosts are united by the impulse to theorize the cultural work that ghosts do within the trans-historical contexts that comprise our understanding of everyday life. These authors study the theoretical and aesthetic genealogies of the spectral, while also commenting on the multiple everyday spaces that this category occupies. Rather than looking to a single tradition or medium, the essays in Popular Ghosts explore film, novels, photography, television, music, social practices, and political structures from different cultures to reopen the questions that surround our haunted sense of the everyday."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Ghosts. --- Haunted places. --- Haunted localities --- Localities, Haunted --- Places, Haunted --- Occultism --- Phantoms --- Specters --- Spectres --- Apparitions --- Ghost tours --- Fantômes. --- Geesten. --- Populaire cultuur.