Latin American adventures in literary journalism / Pablo Calvi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Calvi, Pablo, author.

Series:

Illuminations (Pittsburgh, Pa.)

Illuminations: Cultural Formations of the Americas Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Journalism and literature--Latin America.

Journalism and literature.

Latin America.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 pages).

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2019]

Summary:

Latin American Adventures in Literary Journalism explores the central role of narrative journalism in the formation of national identities in Latin America, and the concomitant role the genre had in the consolidation of the idea of Latin America as a supra-national entity. This work discusses the impact that the form had in the creation of an original Latin American literature during six historical moments. Beginning in the 1840s and ending in the 1970s, Calvi connects the evolution of literary journalism with the consolidation of Latin America's literary sphere, the professional practice of journalism, the development of the modern mass media, and the establishment of nation-states in the region.

Contents:

In-forming the new publics. The trial of Francisco Bilbao and its role in the foundation of Latin American journalism

Domingo Sarmiento, Facundo, and the birth of Latin American nonfiction in the hands of a political exile

José Martí and the chronicles that built modern Latin America

Leveling the playing field. Modernity, markets, and urban Bohemia : the southern cone in the early twentieth century

The mass press

Bottom-up journalism. Latin American narrative journalism and the Cuban Revolution.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780822986713

082298671X