Riots in literature /
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,"...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Newcastle :
Cambridge Scholars,
2008.
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| Summary: | 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 ... |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 178 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781847185822 1847185827 9781443811910 1443811912 1282334417 9781282334410 9786612334412 661233441X |
| Language: | English. |