This cutting-edge research companion addresses our current understanding of literary journalism’s global scope and evolution, offering an immersive study of how different nations have experimented with and perfected the narrative journalistic form/genre over time.
The Routledge Companion to World Literary Journalism demonstrates the genre’s rich genealogy and global impact through a comprehensive study of its many traditions, including the crónica, the ocherk, reportage, the New Journalism, the New New Journalism, Jornalismo literário, periodismo narrativo, bao gao wen xue, creative nonfiction, Literarischer Journalismus, As-SaHafa al Adabiyya, and literary nonfiction. Contributions from a diverse range of established and emerging scholars explore key issues such as the current role of literary journalism in countries radically affected by the print media crisis and the potential future of literary journalism, both as a centerpiece to print media writ large and as an academic discipline universally recognized around the world. The book also discusses literary journalism's responses to war, immigration, and censorship; its many female and Indigenous authors; and its digital footprints on the internet.
This extensive and authoritative collection is a vital resource for academics and researchers in literary journalism studies, as well as in journalism studies and literature in general.
Author(s): John S. Bak, Bill Reynolds
Series: Routledge Media and Cultural Studies Companions
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 577
City: London
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Figures
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Introduction
Black Coffee, White Milk, Or Fifty Shades of Truth?
Structuring a Book Through Inclusivity, Representation, and Parity
Part I: Historical Antecedents and Influences
Part II: Literary Journalistic Methodologies
Part III: War and Conflict
Part IV: Immigration and the Border
Part V: Female Literary Journalists Around the World
Part VI: Censorship and Politics
Part VII: Indigenous Voices
Part VIII: Literary Journalists and (Inter)National Dailies and Magazines
Part IX: Literary Journalism in the Digital Age
Final Observations
Notes
Bibliography
Part I Historical Antecedents and Influences
1 Between Feuilletonism and Social Reportage Hans Ostwald’s Literary Journalism in Berlin’s Popular Press Around 1900
The Rise of the Popular Press and Local Reporting in Germany
Stylistic Features and Methods of Hans Ostwald’s Journalism
Ostwald’s Popular Journalism
The Großstadtdokumente: A Manifest of Ethnographic Journalism
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
2 A Brief History of Literary Journalism in Australia
A Flourishing Start
Literary Journalism in the Post-Colonial Period: The Ebb and Flow of a Fluid Form
Literary Journalism in the Internet Age: A Rising Tide?
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
3 Ungovernable Women of Southern Africa The Non-Conformist Writing of Olive Schreiner, Noni Jabavu, and Bessie Head
Olive Schreiner: A Voice for the Oppressed
Bessie Head: Born an Outsider
Noni Jabavu: African, English, and Expatriate
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
4 Pioneer Literary Journalists The Intricate Relation Between Literary Journalism and Professional Newspaper Reporting …
Pioneer Journalism in the Netherlands
The Emergence of a Mass Press in the Netherlands
The Rise of New Journalism in the Netherlands
Literary Naturalism as Journalistic Inspiration
Literary Journalists Roaming Dutch Streets
The Mediating Subjectivity of Journalistic Witness-Ambassadors
Evoking Sensory Sensation
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
5 Nascent Ghanaian Literary Journalism Alignment—and Dealignment—with Global Trends
Using Literary Journalism Techniques to Expose Wrongdoings
Leaning Into the Literary
Journalistic Blends
Doris Yaa Dartey and Eco-Literary Writing
Dartey and Investigative Technique
Social Orientation
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Part II Literary Journalistic Methodologies
6 A Poetry of Grayness Stig Dagerman’s German Autumn as Postwar Reportage From Germany
Themes of Guilt and Suffering
The German Autumn
Contrasts as a Recurring Style Feature
A Literary Technique of Leitmotivs
The Importance of the Disnarrated
The Thematic Universality and the Power of Language
Notes
Bibliography
7 “Deeper and Deeper and Deeper” Narrative Nonfiction and the Interiority of the Other in South Africa
The Writer as Renter
Interiority: The Place and the Writing Method
The Nonfiction Problem of Knowing an Other
Race and Class Plus Shame
African Humiliations
Conclusion: The Untenable Situation of the Renter
Notes
Bibliography
8 The Paradox of Political Literary Journalism How Dutch Journalists Simultaneously Increase and Decrease Intersubjective ...
Narrative Techniques in Political Literary Journalism: Meta-Representation and the Distance Between Journalist and Character
Event Representation: How the Story Is Told
Discourse Representation: How the Sources Are Quoted
Conclusion
Acknowledgment
Notes
Bibliography
9 Reconstruction of a Scandal The Relotius Case in Germany
Chronology of the Relotius Case
Guarded Traditions and Current Trends in Germany’s Journalistic Storytelling
Empirical Research: Results From Content Analysis
Methodological Preliminaries
The Relotius Case in the Public Discourse
Causes for the Relotius Case
Consequences of the Relotius Case
Conclusion: Ethical Contextualization
Notes
Bibliography
10 Perilous Reckonings American Literary Journalism as a World Literary Journalism
Margaret Fuller
Ida B. Wells
John Dos Passos
James Baldwin
Katherine Boo
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Part III War and Conflict
11 The Empathic Reporter A Simulation of Perspective-Taking in an Arabic Reportage On the 1936 Revolt in Palestine
The Rihla and the Western Reportage Model
Cultural Discovery Through Perspective-Taking
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
12 Literary Journalism and the Spanish Civil War A New Approach to the Conflict Through the Crónica
“It Is Not So Simple”: The Idealization and the Romanticization of Spain
Ernest Hemingway: Mythification of the War Correspondent
Censorship and Ideological Journalism: Literary Journalism About the Spanish Civil War
The Spanish Civil War Crónica: Recovering a Lost Genre
Conclusion
Acknowledgment
Notes
Bibliography
13 “The Years That the Locust Has Eaten” Australian Writer George Johnston On World War II in the Asia–Pacific
New Guinea Diary
Journey Through Tomorrow
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
14 Testimonies of War Reportages By Samar Yazbek and Atef Abu Saif
War Diaries: Yazbek Bears Witness
A War and a Drone Tell the Story
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
15 War Reportage in Iraq Perceptions and Experiences From Portuguese Literary Journalists
The Origins of Portuguese War Reportage and the Path to a Free Press
Portuguese War Reportage in Iraq: A Brief Overview
Portuguese Literary Journalism in War Zones: Budgetary Constraints and Innovative Methods
Conclusion: Concerning the Future of Portuguese Literary War Journalism
Notes
Bibliography
Part IV Immigration and the Border
16 Edmund O’Donovan in Asia and Africa Literary Journalism at the Edge of Empire
Edmund O’Donovan as Literary Journalist
In Central Asian Borderlands
Sudan and After
Notes
Bibliography
17 Ancestral Fears and Everyday Horrors Decoding the Narrative and Rhetorical Strategies Behind Crónicas of Violence in …
The Question of Narrative Intent
Hell Is Infinite Repetition
Conclusion
Acknowledgment
Notes
Bibliography
18 Writing the Disasters of War The Literary Journalism of Displacement in the Middle East
Complicating the Narrative
Clarifying the Narrative
Why Should I Care?
Notes
Bibliography
19 The Skin of the Borders Chronicles On the Shaping of a Catalan Identity in the Twenty-First Century
The Raw Material: An “Ugly” Catalonia
A More Humanistic Journalism
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Part V Female Literary Journalists Around the World
20 Female “Vagabond” Or Stunt Reporter? The Undercover Literary Journalism of Australian Colonial Journalist …
Women in Journalism in Colonial Australia
“Stunt Girls” and “Sob Sisters”: Women in Nineteenth-Century Journalism
Thomson’s Undercover Series for The Argus
“.‘The Female Side of Kew Asylum,’ By an Attendant”
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
21 Carmen De Burgos (Colombine) in the Heraldo De Madrid A Pioneer of Spanish Women’s Literary Journalism
A Pedigree Journalist in Early Twentieth-Century Spain
Colombine in the Heraldo De Madrid: Committed Literary Journalism
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
22 Sylvia De Arruda Botelho Bittencourt Brazil’s Pioneering Female Literary War Journalist
The “Springtime” of a Career
Following Springtime, Majoy’s Collection of Crônicas
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
23 Collecting Voices Alma Guillermoprieto as an Interpreter of the Latin American “Other”
Across the Americas
A Collective Sense of the Self
Documenting Memories
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
24 Poetry and Music in Leila Guerriero’s Argentine Crónicas and Profiles
Guerriero’s Prose Style as the “Poetization of the Real”
A “Huge Map of Men’s Sounds”: When Rhythm Conveys Meaning
Conclusion: Into Human Horizons
Notes
Bibliography
Part VI Censorship and Politics
25 “Inscrutable Are Your Destinies, O Russian Censorship!” Unarrested Development of Literary Journalism in the Empire
Turgenev’s Answer to the Peasant Question
Tolstoy in Crimea
Gilyarovsky Goes to “Katorga”
Doroshevich and the Murderer
Conclusion
Acknowledgment
Notes
Bibliography
26 Italian Literary Journalism A Difficult Codification Between War, Fascism, and Democracy
The Culture of Responsibility and the Mission of the Journalist
Autobiography, Essay, and Literary Journalism
A Provisional Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
27 Two Roads Against Censorship The Diverging J’accuse Letters of Rodolfo Walsh and María Elena Walsh and Their Influence …
A Letter to His Executioners
A Letter to Her Censors
The Two Walshes’ Influence On the Twenty-First-Century Argentine Crónica
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
28 The Politics of Literary Journalism in the New Poland
A Brief History of Polish Reportage’s Popularity
1989 and the Founding of Gazeta Wyborcza
Kapuscinski and Beyond: More Than a Decade On the Polish Book Market
Reportages Written to Order
Reportage as a Blurred Genre
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Part VII Indigenous Voices
29 Emerging From the Silence and Fallacies Uncovering the Stories and Struggles of Indigenous Peoples in Brazil, Argentina, …
Rights to Territory and Environmental Offences By the Mining Industry
Restoring a Purloined Dignity
Violence and Dramatic Adaptation to an Urban Environment
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
30 From the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean Topics and Topoi in Portuguese Language Crónica of Twenty-First Century Africa
Luísa Rogério: A Digital, African Lens
Patraquim’s Crónicas of a Mozambican World Language
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
31 The New Cronistas of the Indies … and the Indigenous Chroniclers?
A View From Inside the Mayab
Western Explorers and Ethnic Travelers: Ic Xec’s Crónicas Viajeras
Conclusion
Acknowledgment
Notes
Bibliography
Part VIII Literary Journalists and (Inter)National Dailies and Magazines
32 Literary Journalism À La Française Changes and Challenges in the French Magazine Press
Journalisme Littéraire (… for Want of a Better Term)
Breeding Grounds and Hospitable Venues
Changes in the French Magazine Press
Challenges in the French Magazine Press
L’écriture Du Réel: French Exceptionalism?
Conclusion: Ongoing and Future Research
Notes
Bibliography
33 October 17 and Beyond Crisis Reportage and the Birth of Literary and Experimental Journalism in Lebanon
Al-Akhbar and the “Softening” of Hard News
Reporting From the Netherworld: The Case of Re.la
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
34 The “Uncomfortables” El Salvador’s El Faro and Investigative Literary Journalism
Migrant Stories
María’s Story
Histories of Violence
Together, Everyone Together
Conclusion: A Beacon for Democracy
Notes
Bibliography
Part IX Literary Journalism in the Digital Age
35 From Objectivity to Emotionality The Rules of Engagement in Multimedia Journalism
From Literary Journalism to Multimedia Journalism
From Objectivity to Subjectivity
The Emotional Turn in Journalism
Resolving Tensions
Conclusion: The Changing Face of Journalism
Notes
Bibliography
36 Indie Visionaries Advancing the Digital Frontier of Literary Journalism in India
The Rise of Digital Narrative Journalism in India
Relaunching The Caravan: Legacy Media Pivots to Digital Journalism
Peepli: Born-Digital Multimedia Storytelling
Story Over Content: Parsing the Print Ethic of Digital Startup Scroll
Conclusion: The Future of Digital Literary Journalism in India
Notes
Bibliography
37 Polish Book Reportage in the Digital Age Symptoms of Adaptation
Digital Literary Journalism in Poland: The Beginnings
Book Reportage in the Participatory Culture
Book Reportage as Transmedia Storytelling
Book Reportage and the Personalized Media Communication
Book Reportage On the Boundaries of Discourse
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
38 Anticipating a Worldmaking Aesthetics Rereading the Archives of Literary Journalism to Imagine Alternative Futures
Tender Narrators for a World of Relation
Our Political Nature: The View From Above
Our Political Nature: The View From Below
Making Kin With Machines
Outlook: Becoming Good Ancestors
Notes
Bibliography
Index
