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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456815103321

Titolo

Riots in literature [[electronic resource] /] / edited by David Bell and Gerald Porter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle, : Cambridge Scholars, 2008

ISBN

1-282-33441-7

9786612334412

1-4438-1191-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (194 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BellDavid <1948->

PorterGerald <1946->

Disciplina

809.93358

Soggetti

Riots in literature

Social conflict in literature

Literature and history

Literature and society

Politics and literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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...