Red Roar: 20 Years of Words
- Submitting institution
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University of Wolverhampton
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 38
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Wrecking Ball Press
- ISBN
- 9781903110201
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- January
- Year of publication
- 2015
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- The work in Red Roar is gleaned from a quarter of a century’s worth of notebooks and scrawled scraps of, largely, reactive writings, travel diaries, responses to events both expected and unexpected and, as such, reflects long-standing and focused archival as well as personal research. The collection is built on research on the flickers and flashes of the fun and frozen wastes of being alive. Many of the pieces were borne out of experiences and adventures undertaken as research for larger projects; out-takes, as it were, from novels and commissioned travel essays. In this way, the work can be said to come from trips to America, the Balkans, and Africa (amongst other places). In Croatia and Bosnia, Griffiths spoke to local writers in reference to the 1990s wars, about populism, nativism, and localised identities amongst the countries of ex-Yugoslavia; in Egypt, Griffiths frequented the library in Alexandria and visited the café in which Cavafy wrote his wonderful 'beauty walks amongst the coffee cups and spoons'. In Vancouver, Griffiths visited the peninsula on which Malcolm Lowry built his shack; in Dundalk, Griffiths absorbed himself in Kavanagh's work. The author can adduce hundreds of such examples, all of which in various ways influenced the pieces collected in Red Roar. Additionally, having a deep and abiding interest in dialect and the demotic, Griffiths sought out in many countries and areas of Britain those places in which received pronunciation has been defiantly eschewed; the Babel of English vernacular across the globe is endlessly, spectacularly rich and fertile. Griffiths’s own wide reading also lies behind much of the work collected here, distilled and concentrated.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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