1st Edition
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.
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.
Introduction
John S. Bak
Part One: Historical Antecedents and Influences
01 "Between Feuilletonism and Social Reportage: Hans Ostwald’s Literary Journalism in Berlin’s Popular Press Around 1900"
Hendrik Michael
02 "A Brief History of Literary Journalism in Australia"
Jennifer Martin and Willa McDonald
03 "Ungovernable Women of Southern Africa: The Non-conformist Writing of Olive Schreiner, Noni Jabavu, and Bessie Head"
Lesley Cowling and Shelley Roberts
04 "Pioneer Literary Journalists: The Intricate Relation Between Literary Journalism and Professional Newspaper Reporting in the Netherlands, 1890–1930"
Frank Harbers and Marcel Broersma
05 "Nascent Ghanaian Literary Journalism: Alignment—and Dealignment—with Global Trends"
Nathaniel Glover-Meni and Phillips Kofi Atsu Larnyo
Part Two: Literary Journalistic Methodologies
06 "A Poetry of Grayness: Stig Dagerman’s German Autumn as Postwar Reportage from Germany"
Cecilia Aare
07 "‘Deeper and Deeper and Deeper’: Narrative Nonfiction and the Interiority of the Other in South Africa"
Anthea Garman
08 "The Paradox of Political Literary Journalism: How Dutch Journalists Simultaneously Increase and Decrease Intersubjective Distance"
Kobie van Krieken, Adriënne Ummels, and José Sanders
09 "Reconstruction of a Scandal: The Relotius Case in Germany"
Tobias Eberwein
10 "Perilous Reckonings: American Literary Journalism as a World Literary Journalism" William Dow
Part Three: War and Conflict
11 "The Empathic Reporter: A Simulation of Perspective-Taking in an Arabic Reportage on the 1936 Revolt in Palestine"
Pasquale Macaluso
12 "Literary Journalism and the Spanish Civil War: A New Approach to the Conflict Through the Crónica"
Antonio Cuartero
13 "‘The Years That the Locust Has Eaten’: Australian Writer George Johnston on World War II in the Asia–Pacific"
Beate Josephi
14 "Testimonies of War: Reportages by Samar Yazbek and Atef Abu Saif"
Hania A. M. Nashef
15 "War Reportage in Iraq: Perceptions and Experiences from Portuguese Literary Journalists"
Manuel João de Carvalho Coutinho
Part Four: Immigration and the Border
16 "Edmund O’Donovan in Asia and Africa: Literary Journalism at the Edge of Empire"
Andrew Griffiths
17 "Ancestral Fears and Everyday Horrors: Decoding the Narrative and Rhetorical Strategies behind Crónicas of Violence in El Salvador"
Patricia Poblete Alday
18 "Writing the Disasters of War: The Literary Journalism of Displacement in the Middle East"
Deborah Campbell
19 "The Skin of the Borders: Chronicles on the Shaping of a Catalan Identity in the Twenty-first Century"
Xavier Pla
Part Five: Female Literary Journalists Around the World
20 "Female ‘Vagabond’ or Stunt Reporter? The Undercover Literary Journalism of Australian Colonial Journalist Catherine Hay Thomson"
Kerrie Davies and Willa McDonald
21 "Carmen de Burgos (Colombine) in the Heraldo de Madrid: A Pioneer of Spanish Women’s Literary Journalism"
Helena Establier Pérez
22 "Sylvia de Arruda Botelho Bittencourt: Brazil’s Pioneering Female Literary War Journalist"
Monica Martinez
23 "Collecting Voices: Alma Guillermoprieto as an Interpreter of the Latin American ‘Other’"
Liliana Chávez Díaz
24 "Poetry and Music in Leila Guerriero’s Argentine Crónicas and Profiles"
Laura Ventura
Part Six: Censorship and Politics
25 "‘Inscrutable are Your Destinies, O Russian Censorship!’: Unarrested Development of Literary Journalism in the Empire"
Dmitry V. Kharitonov
26 "Italian Literary Journalism: A Difficult Codification Between War, Fascism, and Democracy"
Federico Casari
27 "Two Roads Against Censorship: The Diverging J’accuse Letters of Rodolfo Walsh and María Elena Walsh and Their Influence on Current Argentine Cronistas"
Roberto Herrscher
28 "The Politics of Literary Journalism in the New Poland"
Aleksandra Katarzyna Wiktorowska
Part Seven: Indigenous Voices
29 "Emerging from the Silence and Fallacies: Uncovering the Stories and Struggles of Indigenous Peoples in Brazil, Argentina, and Peru"
Dolors Palau-Sampio
30 "From the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean: Topics and Topoi in Portuguese Language Crónica of Twenty-first Century Africa"
Alice Trindade and Isabel Soares
31 "The New Cronistas of the Indies … and the Indigenous Chroniclers?"
Ignacio Corona
Part Eight: Literary Journalists and (Inter)National Dailies and Magazines
32 "Literary Journalism à la française: Changes and Challenges in the French Magazine Press"
Isabelle Meuret
33 "October 17 and Beyond: Crisis Reportage and the Birth of Literary and Experimental Journalism in Lebanon"
Talal Hauchar
34 "The ‘Uncomfortables’: El Salvador’s El Faro and Investigative Literary Journalism"
Jeffrey Peer
Part Nine: Literary Journalism in the Digital Age
35 "From Objectivity to Emotionality: The Rules of Engagement in Multimedia Journalism" Andrew Duffy and Lydia Small
36 "Indie Visionaries: Advancing the Digital Frontier of Literary Journalism in India"
David O. Dowling and Subin Paul
37 "Polish Book Reportage in the Digital Age: Symptoms of Adaptation"
Katarzyna Frukacz
38 "Anticipating a Worldmaking Aesthetics: Rereading the Archives of Literary Journalism to Imagine Alternative Futures"
Soenke Zehle
Biography
John S. Bak is Professor at the Université de Lorraine in France and Founding President of the International Association for Literary Journalism Studies. In addition to having published several articles on literary journalism, he co-edited (with Bill Reynolds) Literary Journalism Across the Globe (2011) and (with Monica Martinez) a special issue of Brazilian Journalism Research entitled “Literary Journalism as a Discipline” (2018). He currently heads the research project ReportAGES on world literary journalism at the Université de Lorraine.
Bill Reynolds is Professor of Journalism at The Creative School, Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada, where he teaches courses in narrative. He was one of the co-founders of the International Association for Literary Journalism Studies, which was launched in 2006, and has been Editor of Literary Journalism Studies since 2014. He and John S. Bak co-edited Literary Journalism Across the Globe (2011), the first collection of essays dedicated to world literary journalism.