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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.
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Figures and Illustrations
Jumana Bayeh, Helen Groth, and Julian Murphet: Introduction: Writing and Rioting: Literature in Times of Crisis
1: Ian Haywood: Tumultum Populi: Riots, Noise, and Speech Acts in Georgian England
2: Mark Steven: I Would They Were Barbarians: Shakespeare, Brecht, and the Global Riot
3: Helen Groth: Bloody Sundays: Radical Rewriting and the Trafalgar Riot of 1887
4: Cóilín Parsons: Rhodes Must Fall, Ulysses, and the Politics of Teaching Modernism
5: J. Daniel Elam: Buzz, Crowd, Life: Writing the Riot in Mulk Raj Anand's Untouchable and Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway
6: Rashmi Varma: Riotous Nations: Time and the Short Story of Partition
7: Joseph North: A Sketch of the Mob
8: Janny H. C. Leung: Phantom Justice and Orwellian Violence: Writing Against Erasure in a Turbulent Hong Kong
9: Julian Murphet: The Crowd in this Moment: Troubling the Immanence of Riots in US Literature
10: Andrew Brooks and Astrid Lorange: 'If I write a Love poem it's against the police': The Abolitionist Poetics of the Riot
11: Karima Laachir: Mobilizing the History of Protest and Dissent in Post-2011 Moroccan Novels
12: Caroline Rooney: From 'Jihadi City' to 'Bride of the Revolution': The Protest of Tripoli
13: Rita Sakr: Taming 'the Square': Documenting the Rioting Subject in Basma Abdel Aziz's The Queue
14: Jumana Bayeh: Mediating the Arab Spring's Riots: Reclaiming Egypt's Lost Archive
Index
Selected Bibliography
