This Pivot studies the influence of Julia Kristeva’s work on American literary and film studies.  Chapters consider this influence via such innovative approaches as Hortense Spillers’s and Jack Halberstam’s to Paule Marshall’s fiction and Bram Stoker’s Dracula, respectively. The book also considers how critics in the United States receive Kristeva’s work on French feminism, semiotics, and psychoanalytic writing in complex, controversial ways, especially on the question of marginalized populations.  Examples include Kelly Oliver and Benigno Trigo on Orson...