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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.
List of contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of Figures and Illustrations
- 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
About the author
Jumana Bayeh is Senior Lecturer at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. She is the author of The Literature of the Lebanese Diaspora (2015) and several articles on Arab diaspora fiction. She co-edited Democracy, Diaspora, Territory: Europe and Cross-Border Politics (2020), as well as a special issue on "Arabs in Australia" in Mashriq & Mahjar. She is working on two research projects, one that examines the representation of the nation-state in Arab diaspora literature from writers based in Australia, North America, and the United Kingdom, and another collaborative project looking at the global resurgence of riots.
Helen Groth is Professor of English in the School of Arts and Media, University of New South Wales. She is the author of Victorian Photography and Literary Nostalgia (OUP, 2004), Moving Images: Nineteenth-Century Reading and Screen Practices (2013), and co-author of Dreams and Modernity: A Cultural History (2013). She is the co-editor of a number of books and special journal issues, most recently Sounding Modernism: Rhythm and Sonic Mediation in Modern Literature and Film (2017), and The Edinburgh Companion to Literary Sound Studies (2023).
Julian Murphet is Jury Chair of English Language and Literature at the University of Adelaide. Prior to that he was Scientia Professor of English and Film Studies at UNSW, Sydney. He has published widely in the fields of modern and contemporary literature, literary theory, film studies, race, and other areas of critical inquiry. Forthcoming books include Modern Character: 1890-1905, Prison Writing in the Twentieth Century: A Literary History, and the Edinburgh Companion to Literature and Sound Studies, also edited with Helen Groth.
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.
