The Routledge Companion to World Literary Journalism

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. 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 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 Journalismdemonstrates 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.Chapter 9 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license. "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, Literarische 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"-- Provided by publisher