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<span lang="EN-US">Dear friends and colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US">Julian Millie and I are happy to announce that our coedited volume,
<i>The Monologic Imagination</i>, has just been published in Laura Ahearn’s series at Oxford. The book’s page is at:
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https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-monologic-imagination-9780190652814?cc=au&lang=en&</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US">The contributors (in order) are Greg Urban, Jon Bialecki, Alan Rumsey, Don Kulick, Kristina Wirtz, Zane Goebel, James Barry, Krista Van Vleet, Jane Goodman, Philip Fountain, and Courtney Handman, as well as Julian and myself.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US">Book description: <span style="background-image: initial; background-">
The pioneering and hugely influential work of Mikhail Bakhtin has led scholars in recent decades to see all discourse and social life as inherently "dialogical." No speaker speaks alone, because our words are always partly shaped by our interactions with others,
past and future. Moreover, we never fashion ourselves entirely by ourselves, but always do so in concert with others. Bakhtin thus decisively reshaped modern understandings of language and subjectivity. And yet, the contributors to this volume argue that something
is potentially overlooked with too close a focus on dialogism: many speakers, especially in charged political and religious contexts, work energetically at crafting monologues, single-voiced statements to which the only expected response is agreement or faithful
replication. Drawing on ethnographic case studies from the United States, Iran, Cuba, Indonesia, Algeria, and Papua New Guinea, the authors argue that a focus on "the monologic imagination" gives us new insights into languages' political design and religious
force, and deepens our understandings of the necessary interplay between monological and dialogical tendencies.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background-image: initial; background-">Best regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background-image: initial; background-">Matt</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<div class="PlainText">Matt Tomlinson<br>
<span style="font-size:10pt">Associate Professor of Anthropology</span></div>
<div class="PlainText"><span style="font-size:10pt">College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University</span></div>
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<div class="PlainText"><span style="font-size:10pt">Links: <a href="https://researchers.anu.edu.au/researchers/tomlinson-ma" id="LPNoLP">
<span style="color:rgb(0,111,201)">My research</span></a> <a href="http://programsandcourses.anu.edu.au/program/MANPS" id="LPNoLP">
<span style="color:rgb(255,0,0)">MAPS Program</span></a> <a href="http://press.anu.edu.au/publications/series/monographs-anthropology" id="LPNoLP">
<span style="color:rgb(75,165,36)">ANU Press Monographs in Anthropology</span></a>
<a href="https://press.anu.edu.au/publications/series/monographs-anthropology/new-mana" id="LPNoLP">
<span style="color:rgb(208,92,18)">New Mana</span></a> <a href="https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-monologic-imagination-9780190652814?cc=au&lang=en&" id="LPNoLP">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Monologue</span></a></span></div>
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