Riots in literature / edited by David Bell and Gerald Porter.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bell, David, 1948-

Porter, Gerald, 1946-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Riots in literature.

Social conflict in literature.

Literature and history.

Literature and society.

Politics and literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (194 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Riots in Literature addresses representations of crowd disorder as manifestations of popular politics, including colonial and postcolonial contexts. The terms used to describe disorder are themselves, of course, contested. Words like "mob," "demonstration" and "protest," not to mention "riot' itself, denote a particular perspective based on an elitist taxonomy for dealing with social and cultural phenomena in society. Of primary concern is the way in which the text describes and designates cr...

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-282-33441-7

9786612334412

1-4438-1191-2

OCLC:

827209376