Juan Meneses Libros

"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"--