Bakhtin’s carnivalesque is dialogic, not a simple inversion of binaries

Evidence

Second, though the terrain of the popular looks as if it is constructed with single binaries, it is not. I reminded you about the importance of the structuring of cultural space in terms of high and low, and the threat of the Bakhtinian carnivalesque. I think Bakhtin has been profoundly misread. The carnivalesque is not simply an upturning of two things which remain locked within their oppositional frameworks; it is also crosscut by what Bakhtin calls the dialogic. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 295

Categorization

Category: Definitional Content

• DEFINE: Corrects a common misreading of the carnivalesque: it is dialogic (crosscutting), not mere binary inversion.
• XREF: The dialogic vs oppositional distinction maps onto how later Islamophobia analysis must read representation as crosscut by multiple subject positions rather than fixed Us/Them polarities.

Related

• The carnivalesque involves dialogic crosscutting, not simple inversion (similarity 0.94)