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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Writing the global riot
    sub title: literature in a time of crisis
  name:
    name part: Bayeh, Jumana
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Groth, Helen
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Murphet, Julian
    role:
      role term: editor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2023
    copyright date: 2023
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xi, 266 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm.
  abstract: 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 analyze literature's fraught dialogue with the histories of violence that are bound up in the riot as an inherently volatile form of collective action.
  note: edited by Jumana Bayeh, Helen Groth and Julian Murphet.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Literature
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Violence in literature
  subject:
    topic: Riots in literature
  subject:
    topic: Social action in literature
  classification: PN56.S65 W75 2023
  classification: 809.93355
  identifier: 0192862596
  identifier: 9780192862594
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 230609
    record change date: 20250804143401.4
    record identifier: in00004788185