The Routledge Companion to World Literary Journalism

Introduction

Part One: Historical Antecedents and Influences

01 "Between Feuilletonism and Social Reportage: Hans Ostwald’s Literary Journalism in Berlin’s Popular Press Around 1900"

02 "A Brief History of Literary Journalism in Australia"

03 "Ungovernable Women of Southern Africa: The Non-conformist Writing of Olive Schreiner, Noni Jabavu, and Bessie Head"

04 "Pioneer Literary Journalists: The Intricate Relation Between Literary Journalism and Professional Newspaper Reporting in the Netherlands, 1890–1930"

05 "Nascent Ghanaian Literary Journalism: Alignment—and Dealignment—with Global Trends"

Part Two: Literary Journalistic Methodologies

06 "A Poetry of Grayness: Stig Dagerman’s German Autumn as Postwar Reportage from Germany"

07 "‘Deeper and Deeper and Deeper’: Narrative Nonfiction and the Interiority of the Other in South Africa"

08 "The Paradox of Political Literary Journalism: How Dutch Journalists Simultaneously Increase and Decrease Intersubjective Distance"

09 "Reconstruction of a Scandal: The Relotius Case in Germany"

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"

12 "Literary Journalism and the Spanish Civil War: A New Approach to the Conflict Through the Crónica"

13 "‘The Years That the Locust Has Eaten’: Australian Writer George Johnston on World War II in the Asia–Pacific"

14 "Testimonies of War: Reportages by Samar Yazbek and Atef Abu Saif"

15 "War Reportage in Iraq: Perceptions and Experiences from Portuguese Literary Journalists"

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"

18 "Writing the Disasters of War: The Literary Journalism of Displacement in the Middle East"

19 "The Skin of the Borders: Chronicles on the Shaping of a Catalan Identity in the Twenty-first Century"

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"

21 "Carmen de Burgos (Colombine) in the Heraldo de Madrid: A Pioneer of Spanish Women’s Literary Journalism"

22 "Sylvia de Arruda Botelho Bittencourt: Brazil’s Pioneering Female Literary War Journalist"

23 "Collecting Voices: Alma Guillermoprieto as an Interpreter of the Latin American ‘Other’"

24 "Poetry and Music in Leila Guerriero’s Argentine Crónicas and Profiles"

Part Six: Censorship and Politics

25 "‘Inscrutable are Your Destinies, O Russian Censorship!’: Unarrested Development of Literary Journalism in the Empire"

26 "Italian Literary Journalism: A Difficult Codification Between War, Fascism, and Democracy"

27 "Two Roads Against Censorship: The Diverging J’accuse Letters of Rodolfo Walsh and María Elena Walsh and Their Influence on Current Argentine Cronistas"

28 "The Politics of Literary Journalism in the New Poland"

Part Seven: Indigenous Voices

29 "Emerging from the Silence and Fallacies: Uncovering the Stories and Struggles of Indigenous Peoples in Brazil, Argentina, and Peru"

30 "From the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean: Topics and Topoi in Portuguese Language Crónica of Twenty-first Century Africa"

31 "The New Cronistas of the Indies … and the Indigenous Chroniclers?"

Part Eight: Literary Journalists and (Inter)National Dailies and Magazines

32 "Literary Journalism à la française: Changes and Challenges in the French Magazine Press"

33 "October 17 and Beyond: Crisis Reportage and the Birth of Literary and Experimental Journalism in Lebanon"

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"

37 "Polish Book Reportage in the Digital Age: Symptoms of Adaptation"

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.