... Mikhail Bakhtin Édouard Glissant dialogics theoreticism aesthetics ...

... grotesquerie Wangechi Mutu Mikhail Bakhtin Black feminism ...

... Junot Díaz Thomas Hobbes Mikhail Bakhtin humor carnivalesque ...

... an emancipatory future. Socially engaged practices seek to combine these two modalities. In order to preserve this aspect of engaged art practice, it is necessary to supplement the concept of social labor with an alternative model of intersubjective experience found in the work of Mikhail Bakhtin. With Bakhtin...

... Adducing black feminism’s theories of the flesh and Mikhail Bakhtin’s conception of the grotesque, this chapter reads together Kenyan American visual artist Wangechi Mutu and African American genderqueer author Marci Blackman to make the case for Black grotesquerie as an expressive mode...

... superior to them. Bakhtin expanded the Western approach to laughter when he underscored how carnivalesque laughter resists the political status quo. This chapter contends that Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao structures a fascinating interplay between sudden glory and the carnivalesque...

..., it is necessary to supplement the concept of social labor with an alternative model of intersubjective experience found in the work of Mikhail Bakhtin. With Bakhtin, readers can identify an aesthetic paradigm that accounts for the creative processes involved in the reciprocal transformation of self and other...

... of laughter, suggesting that the Western intellectual tradition’s attitude toward laughter until the twentieth century can be encapsulated by Thomas Hobbes’s notion of sudden glory, which claims that one laughs at other people or situations because one feels superior to them. Bakhtin expanded the Western...

... This chapter stages an encounter (a “philopoesis”) between philosophical and literary enactments of the concept of plasticity, which are applied to a reading of Mathias Énard’s novel Zone (2010). After explicating three approaches to plasticity, those of Catherine Malabou, M. M. Bakhtin...

..., including elaborate displays of fountains in the desert, as acts of hubris. Yet the appeal of such spectacles cannot be denied, as well as the social struggles embedded in them. This chapter uses Bakhtin’s notion of the carnivalesque to explore the significance of sparkling displays of a life-giving...

... elaborate displays of fountains in the desert, as acts of hubris. Yet the appeal of such spectacles cannot be denied, as well as the social struggles embedded in them. This chapter uses Bakhtin’s notion of the carnivalesque to explore the significance of sparkling displays of a life-giving substance...