{"product_id":"resisting-dialogue-juan-meneses-9781517906757","title":"Resisting Dialogue: Modern Fiction and the Future of Dissent","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA bold new critique of dialogue as a method of eliminating dissent\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Is dialogue always the productive political and communicative tool it is widely conceived to be? \u003ci\u003eResisting Dialogue\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeneses 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 \u003ci\u003eA Passage to India\u003c\/i\u003e and Jeanette Winterson's \u003ci\u003eThe Passion\u003c\/i\u003e to Indra Sinha's \u003ci\u003eAnimal's People\u003c\/i\u003e and more. \u003ci\u003eResisting Dialogue\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUltimately, \u003ci\u003eResisting Dialogue\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Juan Meneses\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 151790675X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781517906757\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/24\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.50d","brand":"Juan Meneses","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48088508072191,"sku":"9781517906757","price":112.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_526d9ed8-cb40-41e4-9737-978113b02648.jpg?v=1769105153","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/resisting-dialogue-juan-meneses-9781517906757","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}