Literary Journalism and Social Justice

Acknowledgments
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Tables
Chapter 1: Introduction: Literary Journalism and Social Justice
Part One: Approach: An Appetite for Justice
Part Two: Encounter: Engaging Subjects
Part Three: Representation: Strategies for Change
Part IV: Response: Changing Attitudes and Prompting Action
Bibliography
Part I: Approach: An Appetite for Justice
Chapter 2: “Throw the Rich Woman’s Castoffs Back in Her Face”: Moa Martinson’s Rejection of Charity in Favour of Class-Based Solidarity
Introduction
Literary Journalism on the Side of the Oppressed
Charity’s Humiliation of the Poor
Co-opting the Poor
Conclusion
Bibliography
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Chapter 3: Louis Roubaud, Social Justice and Lost Children
Bibliography
Chapter 4: The Poetics of Resistance: The Literary Journalism of India’s Dalit Protest Movement
Theorizing Anti-caste Literary Journalism
Kandasamy’s Activist Journalism
Toward a Poetics of Resistance
Conclusion
Bibliography
Part II: Encounter: Engaging Subjects
Chapter 5: Witnessing and the Theorization of Reportage
From Neutral Medium to Responsible Witness
Fascism and the Writer as Producer
Conclusion: More Than Text
Bibliography
Chapter 6: Telling a True Story No One Wants to Read: Literary Journalism and Child Sexual Abuse
Introduction
The Difficulty of Engaging the Public on Child Sexual Abuse
The Scandal of Child Sexual Abuse and the Catholic Church in Australia
The Role of Book-Length Journalism in Covering Child Sexual Abuse and the Church
The Writing of Cardinal: The Rise and Fall of George Pell
Conclusion
Bibliography
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Chapter 7: Standpoint Theory and Trauma: Giving Voice to the Voiceless
Introduction
Standpoint Theory
Social Justice Theory
Standpoint as Social Justice Within Literary Journalism
Case Studies
Huckstepp: A Dangerous Life (2000)
Recreating a Deceased Person Through Transcript, Interviews and Letters
Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence (1996)
Second Generation Telling of Life Story
Evaluation
Conclusion
Bibliography
Author Interviews
Chapter 8: Making Visible the Invisible: George Orwell’s “Marrakech”
Bibliography
Chapter 9: Bearing Witness to Epistemic Injustice: Joan Baxter’s The Mill
Whose Knowledge Counts?
Bearing Witness as a Literary Journalist
A Record of Silencing and Dismissal
Bibliography
Chapter 10: Young Voices, an Old Problem: When Latin American Chroniclers Tell Stories About Childhood and Youth
Conclusion
Bibliography
Part III: Representation: Strategies for Change
Chapter 11: Social Justice as a Political Act: Action and Memory in the Journalism of Rodolfo Walsh
Hope and Expectations
La Revolución Libertadora
Valle, Tanco, and the Operation Massacre
Publishing the Unpublishable: Awakening and Transformation of a Writer
The Disenchantment
Memory and Social Justice
Bibliography
Chapter 12: American Literary Journalism as Liberatory Praxis: Narrative Experimentation and Social Justice
George Packer
Claudia Rankine
Conclusion
Bibliography
Chapter 13: Literary Journalism and the Scales of Justice: A New Mobilities Approach
Introduction: Literary Journalism, Social Justice, and the New Mobilities Paradigm
Literary Journalism as a Physically Mobile Genre
Literary Journalism as a Rhetorically Mobile Genre
“Scalar Fluency” in Every Day We Live Is the Future
Conclusion: Literary Journalism as a Model for Mobilities Research
Bibliography
Chapter 14: Literary Journalism and the American Prison Press
Writing and Reporting Behind the Wall
Literary Prison Journalism, a Historical Overview in Three Stories
Bibliography
Chapter 15: Communication Across Borders: Testimonial Memoir as Literary Journalism for Mobility Justice
Introduction
Mobility Justice
Real-Time Memoir as Literary Journalism
Wuhan Diary
No Friend but the Mountains
Fact Versus Fiction in Literary Journalism
Conclusion
Bibliography
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Chapter 16: Territorial Rights, Identity, and Environmental Challenges in Latin American Literary Journalism
Introduction
Challenges for Environmental Justice in Latin America
Narrative Journalism and the Environment
An Ethnographic Approach in Order to Identify Injustices
Investigating the Conflict: Opposing Visions, Recognition, and Participation
Conclusion
Bibliography
Reportages Analyzed
Chapter 17: Literary Journalism and Critical Social Practice: Latino and African Immigrant Communities in the Works of Gabriel Thompson and Rui Simões
Literary Journalism and Social Justice
Gabriel Thompson and Engaged Literary Journalism at the Bottom of the Workforce
Rui Simões Reporting the Positive-Negative Duality of the Ghetto
Conclusion
Bibliography
Part IV: Response: Changing Attitudes and Prompting Action
Chapter 18: Phronetic Journalism: How One Reporter’s Story Helped Women “Mutilated” by Their Gynaecologist Fight for Social Justice
The Virtue Map
Phronetic Journalism
Research
Writing
Reception
Bibliography
Chapter 19: Stories, Students, and Social Justice: Literary Journalism as a Teaching Tool for Change
Transformative Learning Theory
Attitudes Toward Advocacy in Journalism
Research Questions
Method
Results
Quantitative Analysis
Qualitative Analysis
Discussion
Limitations and Conclusion
Bibliography
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Index