Writing the global riot : literature in a time of crisis / edited by Jumana Bayeh, Helen Groth and Julian Murphet.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bayeh, Jumana, editor.

Groth, Helen, editor.

Murphet, Julian, editor.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature--History and criticism.

Literature.

Violence in literature.

Riots in literature.

Social action in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Cover

Title

Copyright Page

Acknowledgements

Contents

List of Tables and Figures

List of Contributors

Introduction Writing and Rioting: Literature in Times of Crisis

1 Tumultum Populi: Riots, Noise, and Speech Acts in Georgian England

2 I Would They Were Barbarians: Shakespeare, Brecht, and the Global Riot

3 Bloody Sundays: Radical Rewriting and the Trafalgar Riot of 1887

4 Rhodes Must Fall, Ulysses, and the Politics of Teaching Modernism

5 Buzz, Mob, Crowd, Life: Writing the Riot in Mulk Raj Anand's Untouchable and Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway

6 Riotous Nations: Time and the Short Story of Partition

7 A Sketch of the Mob

8 Phantom Justice and Orwellian Violence: Writing against Erasure in a Turbulent Hong Kong

9 The Crowd in This Moment: Troubling the Immanence of Riots in Contemporary US Literature

10 'If I write a Love poem it's against the police': The Abolitionist Poetics of the Riot

11 Mobilizing the History of Protest and Dissent in Post-2011 Moroccan Novels

12 From 'Jihadi City' to 'Bride of the Revolution': The Protest Rhythms of Tripoli

13 Taming 'the Square': Documenting the Rioting Subject in Basma Abdel Aziz's The Queue

14 Mediating the Arab Spring's Riots: Reclaiming Egypt's Lost Archive

Selected Bibliography

Publisher's Acknowledgements

Index.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2023.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on October 10, 2023).

ISBN:

0-19-267688-1

0-19-195364-4

0-19-267687-3

OCLC:

1402178401