The Once and Future Riot

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<p><b>From "our greatest living comics journalist" (<i>Minneapolis Star Tribune</i>), a revelatory investigation of deadly sectarian riots in Uttar Pradesh, India, that explores the mechanics, dynamics, mythologies, uses, and abuses of political violence everywhere </b><br><br>Compared to other episodes of lethal Indian communal violence, the clashes in Uttar Pradesh in 2013, the Muzaffarnagar Riot, were a relatively small-scale affair-some scores of people were killed and several tens of thousands displaced. It had happened before and will probably happen again: Hindus and Muslims, armed with guns and swords, riled up by vitriolic rhetoric and a tangle of accusations, turn on one another. The truth fragments along religious lines, both in the lead-up to the rampage and in its bloody aftermath.<br><br>In <i>The Once and Future Riot</i>, Joe Sacco immerses himself in Uttar Pradesh, speaking to government officials, political leaders, village chiefs, and especially the victims, who were mostly landless peasants, in a quest to understand this riot as an archetype of political violence. In the process, he probes the role of savagery in a democracy; the power of crowds, rather than leaders, to influence the course of events; the collision of competing narratives; and the accounts that perpetrators construct to explain away their participation in bloodshed.<br><br>Hailed as "the heir to R. Crumb and Art Spiegelman" (<i>Economist</i>), Sacco has chronicled the urgent histories that define the world around us, from the Great War to Gaza. Here, he turns his masterful visual reportage to a story that is specific to India but with implications and resonance for all precarious multiethnic, multiracial societies everywhere.</p>

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781250880260

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Buch

Maße

257 x 184 x 18 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2025

Verlag / Hersteller

Henry Holt & Company