Writing the Global Riot Literature in a Time of Crisis

Jumana Bayeh, Senior Lecturer, Macquarie University,Helen Groth, Professor, School of the Arts and Media, University of New South Wales,Julian Murphet, Jury Chair of English Language and Literature, University of Adelaide

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.

Acknowledgements
List of Figures and Illustrations
Introduction: Writing and Rioting: Literature in Times of Crisis, Jumana Bayeh, Helen Groth, and Julian Murphet
1. Tumultum Populi: Riots, Noise, and Speech Acts in Georgian England, Ian Haywood
2. I Would They Were Barbarians: Shakespeare, Brecht, and the Global Riot, Mark Steven
3. Bloody Sundays: Radical Rewriting and the Trafalgar Riot of 1887, Helen Groth
4. Rhodes Must Fall, Ulysses, and the Politics of Teaching Modernism, Cóilín Parsons
5. Buzz, Crowd, Life: Writing the Riot in Mulk Raj Anand's Untouchable and Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway, J. Daniel Elam
6. Riotous Nations: Time and the Short Story of Partition, Rashmi Varma
7. A Sketch of the Mob, Joseph North
8. Phantom Justice and Orwellian Violence: Writing Against Erasure in a Turbulent Hong Kong, Janny H. C. Leung
9. The Crowd in this Moment: Troubling the Immanence of Riots in US Literature, Julian Murphet
10. 'If I write a Love poem it's against the police': The Abolitionist Poetics of the Riot, Andrew Brooks and Astrid Lorange
11. Mobilizing the History of Protest and Dissent in Post-2011 Moroccan Novels, Karima Laachir
12. From 'Jihadi City' to 'Bride of the Revolution': The Protest of Tripoli, Caroline Rooney
13. Taming 'the Square': Documenting the Rioting Subject in Basma Abdel Aziz's The Queue, Rita Sakr
14. Mediating the Arab Spring's Riots: Reclaiming Egypt's Lost Archive, Jumana Bayeh
Index
Selected Bibliography