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THE FUTURE OF DIALOGUE
Editor: David Glover
This issue of New Formations leads with a collection of essays on the role of dialogue in contemporary cultural theory. From Bakhtin to Habermas, dialogue and dialogism have been crucial to the attempt to imagine new forms of political community, forging new links between questions of aesthetics and the institutions of modern public life. Attempting to assess dialogue's political future, the essays gathered here examine the legacy of the concept's Romantic genealogy, its status in postmodern fiction and theory, and in African American poetics, together with problems of dialogue raised in the writings of Bakhtin, Habermas, and de Man.
Other topics addressed in this issue include: the poststructuralist politics of universalism; the critique of Judith Butler's analysis of gender formation; queer subjectivity; World War One and postmodern memory; trauma and detective fiction; and secularism in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children.
Contents and Contributors:
David Glover Editorial
Stephen Bygrave 'And Art Thou Nothing?': Dialogue and Critique in
Romanticism Simon Jarvis The Future of Monologue
Peter Middleton The Burden of Intersubjectivity: Dialogue as a Communicative
Ideal in Postmodern Fiction and Theory
Nicky Marsh 'Doing the Call and Response': Dialogue in Contemporary
African American Poetics
Lucy Hartley Conflict Not Conversation: The Defeat of Dialogue in
Bakhtin and de Man
Ken Hirschkop It's Too Good to Talk: Myths of Dialogue in Bakhtin
and Habermas
Saul Newman Universalism / Particularism: Towards a Poststructuralist
Politics of Universality
John Hood-Williams and Wendy Cealey Harrison Gendered Melancholy
or General Melancholy? Homosexual Attachments in the Formation of Gender
Denis Flannery Sibling Love and Queer Subjectivity
Michèle Barrett The Great War and Postmodern Memory
Sujala Singh Secularist Faith in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children
Laura Marcus Oedipus Express: Trains, Trauma and Detective Fiction
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