LEADER 04738nam 2200589 450 001 9910793953503321 005 20230124195910.0 010 $a1-4529-5980-3 035 $a(CKB)4100000010012821 035 $a(OCoLC)1134768971 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse75537 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6002227 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000010012821 100 $a20200228d2019 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aResisting dialogue $emodern fiction and the future of dissent /$fJuan Meneses 210 1$aMinneapolis, Minnesota ;$aLondon :$cUniversity of Minnesota Press,$d[2019] 210 4$dİ2019 215 $a1 online resource 311 $a1-5179-0676-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPrologue: Reading Dangerously Introduction: Resisting Dialogue 1. Impasse: Cosmopolitanism at the End of Empire 2. Contra I: A History of Silence 3. Deflection: Neoliberalism and the Affective Regulation of Citizenship 4. Contra II: Terrorist Counters 5. Reframing: Visualizing Environmental Violence in the Anthropocene Epilogue: Arguing On. 330 $a"Resisting Dialogue offers a critique of dialogue as a method of eliminating dissent. The book investigates the presence of this depoliticizing maneuver in several modernist, postmodernist, and contemporary novels from the English-speaking world and, at the same time, explores the creative power of those novels to resist it. By analyzing literary works produced in the span of almost a hundred years, Resisting Dialogue establishes a genealogy of this phenomenon and connects it to the deployment of consensus as a disciplinary regime in the current, post-political moment"--$cProvided by publisher. 330 $a"A bold new critique of dialogue as a method of eliminating dissent. Is dialogue always the productive political and communicative tool it is widely conceived to be? Resisting Dialogue reassesses our assumptions about dialogue and, in so doing, about what a politically healthy society should look like. Juan Meneses argues that, far from an unalloyed good, dialogue often serves as a subtle tool of domination, perpetuating the underlying inequalities it is intended to address. Meneses investigates how "illusory dialogue" (a particular dialogic encounter designed to secure consensus) is employed as an instrument that forestalls--instead of fostering--articulations of dissent that lead to political change. He does so through close readings of novels from the English-speaking world written in the past hundred years--from E. M. Forster's A Passage to India and Jeanette Winterson's The Passion to Indra Sinha's Animal's People and more. Resisting Dialogue demonstrates how these novels are rhetorical exercises with real political clout capable of restoring the radical potential of dialogue in today's globalized world. Expanding the boundaries of postpolitical theory, Meneses reveals how these works offer ways to practice disagreement against this regulatory use of dialogue and expose the pitfalls of certain other dialogic interventions in relation to some of the most prominent questions of modern history: cosmopolitanism at the end of empire, the dangers of rewriting the historical record, the affective dimension of neoliberalism, the racial and nationalist underpinnings of the "war on terror," and the visibility of environmental violence in the Anthropocene. Ultimately, Resisting Dialogue is a complex, provocative critique that, melding political and literary theory, reveals how fiction can help confront the deployment of dialogue to preempt the emergence of dissent and, thus, revitalize the practice of emancipatory politics"--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aLiterature and society 606 $aDialogue in literature 606 $aPolitics and literature 606 $aFiction$xSocial aspects 606 $aFiction$xHistory and criticism 606 $aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory$2bisacsh 606 $aPHILOSOPHY / Political$2bisacsh 615 0$aLiterature and society. 615 0$aDialogue in literature. 615 0$aPolitics and literature. 615 0$aFiction$xSocial aspects. 615 0$aFiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 7$aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory. 615 7$aPHILOSOPHY / Political. 676 $a809.3 686 $aPOL010000$aPHI019000$2bisacsh 700 $aMeneses$b Juan$01559632 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910793953503321 996 $aResisting dialogue$93824932 997 $aUNINA