The Once and Future Riot

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<p><b>From the ground-breaking graphics journalist and author of <i>Palestine,</i> a revelatory investigation of the deadly sectarian riots in 2013 Uttar Pradesh, India, and their urgent global significance today</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. 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>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>Sacco has chronicled the urgent histories that define the world around us, from the Great War to Gaza. Here, the award winning cartoonist turns his masterful visual reportage to a story that is specific to India but with implications and resonance for us all.<br><br>*<br><br>PRAISE FOR JOE SACCO: <br><br>'One of the masters of his craft' <i>New Statesman<br><br>'</i>A pioneer of the genre' <i>TLS</i><br><br>'Formidably talented.' <i>Independent </i><br><br>'The hands-down boss of his particular corner of contemporary literature' <i>Dazed &amp; Confused</i><br><br>'Sacco's brilliant, excruciating books of war reportage are potent territory... He shows how much that is crucial to our lives a book can hold' <i>New York Times Book Review</i></p>

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781787334328

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Buch

Maße

263 x 192 x 20 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2026

Verlag / Hersteller

Random House UK Ltd