The carnivalesque involves dialogic crosscutting, not simple inversion

Evidence

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

• DEFINE: Clarifies a corrected reading of Bakhtin’s carnivalesque that resists binary inversion frameworks.
• QUESTION: Worth chasing: the fuller account of how the dialogic crosscuts carnival inversion — Hall gestures rather than develops it here.