The Literary Journalist as a Naturalist (Palgrave Studies in Literary Journalism)

This book is a scholarly anthology that proposes a deep discussion about the multiple ways in which narrative journalism has portrayed nature, human interactions with nature, the global actions and the consequences of activities that have either attempted to explore it, exploit it, harness it, dominate it, and protect it. This essay collection offers an academic framework for literary journalistic narratives about nature and includes the study of long form journalism originated in different corners of the world, all exploring human-non human-nature interactions in all their power, finitude, peril and urgency. Contents Notes on Contributors List of Figures List of Tables Urgency and Its Downfalls: How Have We Covered Nature and Have We Done It Right? Frames of Reference Contents References Anna Krien’s Into the Woods and How to Report on Environmental Activism Into the Woods and the Tasmanian Island Forest Wars and Protesters: Structure and Sympathizing with One’s Subject of Analysis The Loggers and the Forestry Business: Giving Context to Convey Meaning Reforestation, Pesticides, and Logging: Showing a Journalist’s Emotions The Years After Into the Woods’ Publication and the Future of Tasmania’s Forests References John Joseph Mathews: The “Blackjack Discourse” of an Osage Naturalist A Privileged Osage Home Among the Blackjacks Writing the Prairie Refuge and Renewal on the Prairie Conclusion References Edible Armageddon: Insect Superheroes and Other Villains References Toward an Activist Aesthetic of Environmental Literary Journalism: Deep and Social Ecology in Thoreau, Carson, and Jenkins Foundations of Deep and Social Ecology in Advocacy Journalism The Biophilia Hypothesis Deep and Social Ecology in Silent Spring and Walden The Right to Know References “The Bitter Taste of Extinction”: Writing the Environmental Crisis Through Food Introduction Wordy Appetites: Drafting the Culinary Genre Green Gourmets: An Environmental Turn Conclusion: Burns and Ghosts References Silent Spring: The Rise of the Environmental Movement Introduction Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature and The Gentle Subversive Ecofeminism and Rachel Carson Silent Spring Poetry Conclusion References Alive to the Slow Terror of the Megadams: The Literary Journalism of Jacques Leslie’s Deep Water Introduction The Literary Journalist as Naturalist Creating an Affective Threshold References Revisiting Places and People: How Immersion and Cohesion Are Created in Danish Digital Long-Form Journalism That Deals with Climate Change Theoretical Framework and Methodology: Modes and Materialities Two Cases and a Methodological Challenge Analysis of 2004 Version: Text-Driven, Adventurous, and Personal Analysis of the 2019 Version: Humanizing Climate Change by Using Revisiting as Literary Strategy Conclusion: Creating Immersion and Cohesion by Using the Old with the New References Environmental Activism and Resistance in Latin America: Literary Journalism’s Portrayal of the Struggle of Environmental Leaders Introduction Media, Environmental Struggles, and Resistance Human Rights Defenders and Violence Narrative Journalism’s Interpretation of the Environmental Fight Portraying Environmental Activism Rights to Territory and Identity Life Missions Stigmatization, Prosecution, and Perpetrators’ Impunity Conclusions References An Ecologist’s Personal Investigation: Sandra Steingraber on Danger, Ecology, and Writing Writing Science The World’s Ugliest Gerund Recalling Carson The Personal as Scientific and Political Ecology as Perception and Practice Conclusion References How Marjory Stoneman Douglas Saved Environmental Reporting (and maybe the Everglades) Born Storytellers Lost in the Woods The Untrained Environmentalist Human Nature What Flowed from River of Grass Survey Says... References The Naturalist as Literary Journalist: David Attenborough’s Sixty Years of Documentary Film-Making Introduction Serendipity Creating a “Visual Grammar” Mediation and Storytelling Immersion and First-Person Full Circle References Interviewing Nature: The Dangers and Delights of the Pathetic Fallacy and Anthropomorphism in Nature Writing and Environmental Journalism Introduction The Reality Boundary and Nonfiction Nature Writing A Brief Natural History of the Nature Writing and Literary Journalism Traditions Nonfiction Nature Writing Literary Journalism The Use of Figurative Literary Devices in Nature Writing A Scientific Critique of Anthropomorphism Toward a New Literary Journalism Canon Recommended Additions to the Literary Journalism Pantheon Conclusion References Thanatos Syndrome: Literary Forms in Domosławski’s Death in the Amazon Introduction The History of the Publication Narrative Techniques in the Service of Nature ‘Moral Sleeping Pills’ and Responsibility in Liquid Times Conclusion, or the Literary Journalist as a Naturalist References It’s Personal: Women’s Writing on Weather Disaster in the Context of Climate Crisis in Australia References The Big Picture and the Small Scene: Anna Tsing’s Assemblages vs. Paul Engle’s Workshop, and the Nature In Between Assemblages and Literary Journalism Assemblages and Literary Journalism References Index