Literary journalism and social justice / Robert Alexander, Willa McDonald, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Alexander, Robert, editor.

McDonald, Willa, editor.

ProQuest ebook central

Lipman Criminology Library Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Creative nonfiction--History and criticism.

Creative nonfiction.

Social justice in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.

Contents:

Chapter 1 - Introduction (Robert Alexander & Willa McDonald)

1 - Historical Beginnings: Literary Journalism, Witnessing and Epistemic Justice

Chapter 2 - The Reporter as Medium: The Theorization of Self-reflection as a Function in Social Reportage (Pascal Sigg, PhD student at University of Zurich)

Chapter 3 - Literary Journalism and Social Justice in the US Antebellum Period (Nancy Roberts, Professor at University at Albany-SUNY)

2 - Literary Journalist as Social Justice Activist

Chapter 4 - Down But Not Out: Orwell's 'Spike' and Journalism as a Way of Living (Richard Keeble, Professor at University of Lincoln)

Chapter 5 - Rodolfo Walsh: The Quest for Social Justice Beyond Law(lessness) (Pablo Calvi, Assistant Professor at Stony Brook University School of Journalism)

Chapter 6 - "The Personal Bleeds into the Political": The Literary Journalism of India's Dalit Protest Movement (David O. Dowling, Associate Professor at University of Iowa)

3 - Migration, Displacement and Carceral Justice

Chapter 7 - Literary Journalism as a Vehicle for Mobility Justice: The Case of Every Day We Live is the Future (2017) (Rob Alexander)

Chapter 8 - The Global Language of Contemporary Literary Journalism: Transatlantic Views of Social (In)Justice in the Works of Gabriel Thompson and Rui Simoes (Isabel Soares, Associate Professor; Rita Amorim, Assistant Professor; Raquel Baltazar, Assistant Professor, all Universidade de Lisboa)

Chapter 9 - Social Justice and Literary Journalism in Behrouz Boochani's No Friend but the Mountains (Willa McDonald)

Chapter 10 - The Literary Journalism of the Prison Press (Kate McQueen, University of California Santa Cruz)

4 - Race, Gender and the Witnessing of Trauma: Testimonial and Deliberative Justice

Chapter 11 - Matter of Access: The Role of Black Journalists in Covering Emmett Till (Roberta S. Maguire, Professor at University of Wisconsin Oshkosh)

Chapter 12 - Phronetic Journalism: Ethics Empathy and Change in Melissa Davey's 'I feel mutilated' (Jennnifer Martin, Lecturer at Deakin University)

Chapter 13 - Standpoint Theory and Trauma: Giving Voice to the Voiceless (Sue Joseph, Senior Lecturer at University of Technology Sydney)

5 - Environmental, Ecological and Indigenous Justice

Chapter 14 - Joan Baxter's The Mill: Bearing Witness to Environmental and Epistemic Justice (Callie Long, PhD candidate at Brock University)

Chapter 15 - Rights to Territory, Identity and Environmental Challenges in Latin American Literary Journalism (Dolors Paula-Sampio, Senior Lecturer at University of Valencia)

Chapter 16 - From Silent Spring to Standing Rock: Environmental Justice, New Media and Oral Traditions (Ryan Marnane, Lecturer at Bryant University)

6 - Literary Journalism Form and Social Justice

Chapter 17 - Literary Reportage of an Empathetic Eyewitness and an Activist Rebel: Bostjan Videmsek and his Dispatches from the Frontlines of Humanity (Leonora Flis, Associate Prfoessor at University of Nova Gorica and University of Ljubljana)

Chapter 18 - American Literary Journalism as Liberatory Pracix: Experimentalism and Social Justice (William Dow, Professor at The American University of Paris)

7 - Teaching Literary Journalism as a Tool for Social Change

Chapter 19 - Stories, Students and Social Justice: Literary Journalism as a Teaching Tool for Change (Jeffrey Neely, Associate Professor at the University of Tampa; Mitzi Lewis, Associate Professor at MSU Texas).

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Print version record.

Includes index.

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Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Lipman Criminology Library Fund.

Other Format:

ebook version :

Print version: SOCIAL JUSTICE AND LITERARY JOURNALISM.

ISBN:

9783030894207

3030894207

Publisher Number:

99992290832

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