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RE: [xmca] Bahktin question



To understand the chronotope, imagine yourself telling your life story to another in less than an hour. Now ask yourself how you can ever manage to describe intelligibly your life to another in less than an hour, while your 'real' life stretched/s in time and space far beyond the single act of telling your life story to another in less than an hour. Chronotopes allow us to do so and to squeeze and mold time and space into an intelligible narrative. Chronotopes are also means to shape our identity since they allow us to share our sense of being in time and space with others. Thus Keith Basso, after having been among the Western Apaches for 30 years, concluded that "chronotopes stand as monuments to the community itself, as symbols of it, as forces operating to shape its members’ images of themselves."

Michiel

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From: xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu [xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu] On Behalf Of ERIC.RAMBERG@spps.org [ERIC.RAMBERG@spps.org]
Sent: Monday, May 04, 2009 6:21 PM
To: eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity
Subject: [xmca] Bahktin question

Would it be fair to define the word chronotope as the time and space
helping to define the meaning of a dialogue?  Late coming to the study of
this powerhouse.

eric
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