{"product_id":"the-once-and-future-riot-9781250880260","title":"The Once and Future Riot","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom \"our greatest living comics journalist\" (\u003ci\u003eMinneapolis Star Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e), a revelatory investigation of deadly sectarian riots in Uttar Pradesh, India, that explores the mechanics, dynamics, mythologies, uses, and abuses of political violence everywhere \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCompared 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Once and Future Riot\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHailed as \"the heir to R. Crumb and Art Spiegelman\" (\u003ci\u003eEconomist\u003c\/i\u003e), 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoe Sacco \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of \u003ci\u003eFootnotes in Gaza\u003c\/i\u003e, for which he received the Ridenhour Book Prize and the Eisner Award, as well as \u003ci\u003ePaying the Land\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePalestine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eJournalism\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSafe Area Gorazde, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eWar on Gaza, \u003c\/i\u003eboth also Eisner Award winners. His comics reporting has appeared in the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eHarper's Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in Portland, Oregon.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Metropolitan Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51649198489874,"sku":"9781250880260","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_9dd4677f-fd27-472b-a4f6-33ccfe56813a.jpg?v=1759846052","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-once-and-future-riot-9781250880260","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}