Possibilities of Liberation in Dialogue: A Critical Interpretation of Hooks and Bakhtin

abstract acknowledge active response Alexandra Lynn Stotts amongst ourselves analyze antiseptic authoritative discourse Bakhtin's notion Bakhtin's theory Bakhtinian bell hooks challenge claims Clark & Holquist classroom complex theory conversation critical dialogue CRITICAL INTERPRETATION DATE DUE dialogic overtones dialogical object dialogue between women engage exist exploitation and oppression feminism feminist perspective gender hegemonic heterogeneity HOOKS AND BAKHTIN important individual interaction internally persuasive discourse INTERPRETATION OF HOOKS Lesbian LIBERATION IN DIALOGUE liberatory listener literary genres male oppression Marilyn Frye masculinity men's Michigan State University objectivist participants patriarchal oppression person phonemes political pornography POSSIBILITIES OF LIBERATION potential rape reality recognition recognize reflect s/he Saussure scientific scientific method secondary genres seems situatedness speaker speech act speech communication subject to subject subjecthood taking into account talking back theory of language thought topic traditional linguistics understand unit of speech utterance and speech violence Voloshinov whole utterance woman women speaking women's experience women's silence words