Riots in Literature

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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 crowd behaviour using the language of denigration, metaphors of the primitive and animalistic, brutal images, and silences, and where the mediation of the event is expressed in terms of the binary order/disorder. The contributors to this volume are interested in the analysis of the interaction of official political culture and crowd politics as represented in literature and orature, and how such representations contribute to the discourses of authority and subversion of their period. The essays are wide-ranging and explore the phenomenon of riots in literature through studies of popular risings in Shakespeare; Carlyle and the French Revolution; the Rebecca Riots in Wales; popular ballads and the Indian War of Independence in 1857, post-partition riots in India and Pakistan in the 1960s, township violence in South African fiction post-1948, the 1965 Watts riots in Los Angeles in detective fiction and avant garde disturbances in France of the 1920s and 1930s. Throughout the book, these essays focus attention on the tension-filled relationship that is perceived between literature and discourses of power and popular resistance.
About the Author: David Bell Ph. D. is a free-lance translator and independent researcher. His research interests include British working-class writing of the 1930s and contemporary South African fiction. In addition to articles in these fields, his publications include: Ardent Propaganda. Miners' novels and class conflict 1929-1939 (1995), Latitude 630 North (ed. 2002) and Joseph Conrad's Nigger of the Narcissus: A Dialogue Seminar (ed. 2002). He is currently co-editing a volume of critical essays on the South African writer Zakes Mda. Gerald Porter is Professor of Literature and Cultural Studies in the Department of English at the University of Vaasa, Finland. His main interest is in radical and vernacular song and its transmission, a field in which he has published The English Occupational Song (Umea, 1992) and (with Mary-Ann Constantine) Fragments and Meaning in Traditional Song from the Blues to the Baltic (Oxford University Press).


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  • ISBN-13: 9781847185822
  • Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
  • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
  • Height: 220 mm
  • No of Pages: 185
  • Series Title: English
  • Weight: 700 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1847185827
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jun 2008
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 0 mm
  • Width: 150 mm


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