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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Weitere Verfasser: Bell, David, 1948-, Porter, Gerald, 1946-
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars, 2008.
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Zusammenfassung: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 ...
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xv, 178 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781847185822
1847185827
9781443811910
1443811912
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9781282334410
9786612334412
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