Literary journalism across the globe : journalistic traditions and transnational influences / edited by John S. Bak and Bill Reynolds.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bak, John S.

Reynolds, William, 1956-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reportage literature--History and criticism.

Reportage literature.

Journalism and literature.

Physical Description:

x, 306 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2011]

Summary:

At the End of the Nineteenth Century, several countries were developing journalistic traditions similar to what we identify today as literary reportage or literary journalism. Yet throughout most of the twentieth century, in particular after World War I, that tradition was overshadowed and even marginalized by the general perception among democratic states that journalism ought to be either "objective," as in the American tradition, or "polemical," as in the European. Nonetheless, literary journalism would survive and, at times, even thrive. How and why is a story that is unique to each nation.

Though largely considered an Anglo-American phenomenon today, literary journalism has had a long and complex international history, one built on a combination of traditions and influences that are sometimes quite specific to a nation and at other times come from the blending of cultures across borders. These essays examine this phenomenon from various international perspectives, documenting literary journalism's rich and diverse heritage and describing its development within a global context. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction / John S. Bak

Toward a Theory of International Literary Journalism

Literary reportage: the "other" literary journalism / John C. Hartsock

Reportage in the U.K.: A Hidden Genre? / Jenny McKay

The Edge of Canadian Literary Journalism: The West Coast's Restless Search for Meaning versus Central Canada's Chronicles of the Rich and Powerful / Bill Reynolds

The Counter-Coriolis Effect: Contemporary Literary Journalism in a Shrinking World / David Abrahamson

The Evolutionary Future of American and International Literary Journalism / Norman Sims

Journalistic Traditions. Dutch Literary Journalism: From Pamphlet to Newspaper (ca. 1600/1900) / Clazina Dingemanse and Rutger de Graaf

Literary Journalism's Magnetic Pull: Britain's "New" Journalism and the Portuguese at the Fin-de-Siecle / Isabel Soares

Literary Journalism in Spain: Past, Present (and Future?) / Sonia Parratt

Social Movements and Chinese Literary Reportage / Peiqin Chen

Hundred and Twelve Years of Nonfiction Solitude: a Survey of Brazilian Literary Journalism / Edvaldo Pereira Lima

Literary Journalism in Twentieth-Century Finland / Maria Lassila-Merisalo

Transnational Influences. Riding the Rails with Robin Hyde: Literary Journalism in 1930s New Zealand / Nikki Hessell

James Agee's "Continual Awareness," Untold Stories: "Saratoga Springs" and "Havana Cruise" / William Dow

Željko Kozinc, the Subversive Reporter: Literary Journalism in Slovenia / Sonja Merljak Zdovc

Creditable or Reprehensible? The Literary Journalism of Helen Garner / Willa McDonald

Ryszard Kapuściński and the Borders of Documentarism: Toward Exposure without Assumption / Soenke Zehle.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781558498778

155849877X

9781558498761

1558498761

OCLC:

696916062