Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Verkaufsrang
23645
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum
13.11.2025
Verlag
VermilionSeitenzahl
144
Maße (L/B/H)
26,3/19,2/2 cm
Gewicht
714 g
Farbe
Lichtgrau / Cognac
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-78733-432-8
From the ground-breaking graphics journalist and author of Palestine, a revelatory investigation of the deadly sectarian riots in 2013 Uttar Pradesh, India, and their urgent global significance today
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.
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.
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.
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PRAISE FOR JOE SACCO:
'One of the masters of his craft' New Statesman
'A pioneer of the genre' TLS
'Formidably talented.' Independent
'The hands-down boss of his particular corner of contemporary literature' Dazed & Confused
'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' New York Times Book Review
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