Reviews for Introducing Bakhtin

The average rating for Introducing Bakhtin based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-01-30 00:00:00 Vicki Holsclaw Thoughts / feelings: a) Biddy Martin's 'Sexualities without Genders and Other Queer Utopias' is still spot on, especially this: Queer theory and politics necessarily celebrate transgression in the form of visible difference from norms that are then exposed to be norms, not natures or inevitabilities. Gender and sexual identities are arranged, in much of this work, around demonstrably defiant deviations and configurations. Surfaces, then, take priority over interiors and depths and even rule conventional approaches to them out of bounds as inevitably disciplinary and constraining. What requires more emphasis, in this context, is that the subordinarion of women does not follow simply from the failure to conform to convention, but also from the performance or embodiment of it. Reconfiguring gender requires reconfiguring the institutional and discursive conditions that structure and are structured by regulatory norms, but also reconfiguring interiorities, and, in particular, distributions of power, autonomy, attachment, and vulnerability. (p13) b) the Gayle Rubin / Judith Butler interview is pretty disappointing, although what's really shocking is a) that they could just get research grants and go to France to read French books and met Foucault, b) how little queer historiography scholarship there actually was back then, c) generally how little fussed they seem about scholarship beyond psychoanalysis, Lacan etc. c) I didn't realize Emily Apter was queer, this makes her about 500% cooler, I need to go back and reread her book on translation. Her essay, 'Reflections on Gynophobia' is also surprisingly still very relevant. d) it gets pretty boring after the first half, so I lost patience, stop reading and returned the book to the library.

Review # 2 was written on 2014-06-30 00:00:00 Anthea Langelaan MFA Reading List book 2. A great anthology, with stellar references and recommended readings. Covers sizeable ground too.