Writing the Global Riot
Literature in a Time of Crisis
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 7 November 2023
- ISBN 9780192862594
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages288 pages
- Size 140x163x30 mm
- Weight 626 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 5 colour illustrations 560
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Short description:
The history of the modern riot parallels the development of the modern novel, and writers have collectively shaped perceptions of the riot as a form of political and social expression. The essays in this volume analyse literature's dialogue with the histories of violence bound up in the riot as an inherently volatile form of collective action.
MoreLong description:
The history of the modern riot parallels the development of the modern novel and the modern lyric. Yet there has been no sustained attempt to trace or theorize the various ways writers over time and in different contexts have shaped cultural perceptions of the riot as a distinctive form of political and social expression. Through a focus on questions of voice, massing, and mediation, this collection is the first cross-cultural study of the interrelatedness of a prevalent mode of political and economic protest and the variable styles of writing that riots inspired. This volume will provide historical depth and cultural nuance, as well as examine more recent theoretical attempts to understand the resurgence of rioting in a time of unprecedented global uncertainty. One of the key contentions of this collection is that literature has done more than merely record riotous practices. Rather literature has, in variable ways, used them as raw material to stimulate and accelerate its own formal development and critical responsiveness. For some writers this has manifested in a move away from classical norms of propriety and accord, and toward a more openly contingent, chaotic, and unpredictable scenography and cast of dramatis personae, while others have moved towards narrative realism or, more recently, digital media platforms to manifest the crises that riots unleash. Keenly attuned to these formal variations, the essays in this collection analyse literature's fraught dialogue with the histories of violence that are bound up in the riot as an inherently volatile form of collective action.
MoreTable of Contents:
Acknowledgements
List of Figures and Illustrations
Introduction: Writing and Rioting: Literature in Times of Crisis
Tumultum Populi: Riots, Noise, and Speech Acts in Georgian England
I Would They Were Barbarians: Shakespeare, Brecht, and the Global Riot
Bloody Sundays: Radical Rewriting and the Trafalgar Riot of 1887
Rhodes Must Fall, Ulysses, and the Politics of Teaching Modernism
Buzz, Crowd, Life: Writing the Riot in Mulk Raj Anand's Untouchable and Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway
Riotous Nations: Time and the Short Story of Partition
A Sketch of the Mob
Phantom Justice and Orwellian Violence: Writing Against Erasure in a Turbulent Hong Kong
The Crowd in this Moment: Troubling the Immanence of Riots in US Literature
'If I write a Love poem it's against the police': The Abolitionist Poetics of the Riot
Mobilizing the History of Protest and Dissent in Post-2011 Moroccan Novels
From 'Jihadi City' to 'Bride of the Revolution': The Protest of Tripoli
Taming 'the Square': Documenting the Rioting Subject in Basma Abdel Aziz's The Queue
Mediating the Arab Spring's Riots: Reclaiming Egypt's Lost Archive
Index
Selected Bibliography
