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

• Pubblicazione: Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2022]; ©2022
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (331 pages)
• Disciplina: 814.6
• Soggetto topico: Creative nonfiction; Social justice in literature
• Persona (resp. second.): AlexanderRobert; McDonaldWilla
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Literary Journalism and Social Justice -- Part One: Approach: An Appetite for Justice -- Part Two: Encounter: Engaging Subjects -- Part Three: Representation: Strategies for Change -- Part IV: Response: Changing Attitudes and Prompting Action -- Bibliography -- Part I: Approach: An Appetite for Justice -- Chapter 2: "Throw the Rich Woman's Castoffs Back in Her Face": Moa Martinson's Rejection of Charity in Favour of Class-Based Solidarity -- Introduction -- Literary Journalism on the Side of the Oppressed -- Charity's Humiliation of the Poor -- Co-opting the Poor -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Untitled -- Chapter 3: Louis Roubaud, Social Justice and Lost Children -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4: The Poetics of Resistance: The Literary Journalism of India's Dalit Protest Movement -- Theorizing Anti-caste Literary Journalism -- Kandasamy's Activist Journalism -- Toward a Poetics of Resistance -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Part II: Encounter: Engaging Subjects -- Chapter 5: Witnessing and the Theorization of Reportage -- From Neutral Medium to Responsible Witness -- Fascism and the Writer as Producer -- Conclusion: More Than Text -- Bibliography -- Chapter 6: Telling a True Story No One Wants to Read: Literary Journalism and Child Sexual Abuse -- Introduction -- The Difficulty of Engaging the Public on Child Sexual Abuse -- The Scandal of Child Sexual Abuse and the Catholic Church in Australia -- The Role of Book-Length Journalism in Covering Child Sexual Abuse and the Church -- The Writing of Cardinal: The Rise and Fall of George Pell -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Untitled -- Chapter 7: Standpoint Theory and Trauma: Giving Voice to the Voiceless -- Introduction -- Standpoint Theory -- Social Justice Theory. ; Standpoint as Social Justice Within Literary Journalism -- Case Studies -- Huckstepp: A Dangerous Life (2000) -- Recreating a Deceased Person Through Transcript, Interviews and Letters -- Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence (1996) -- Second Generation Telling of Life Story -- Evaluation -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Author Interviews -- Chapter 8: Making Visible the Invisible: George Orwell's "Marrakech" -- Bibliography -- Chapter 9: Bearing Witness to Epistemic Injustice: Joan Baxter's The Mill -- Whose Knowledge Counts? -- Bearing Witness as a Literary Journalist -- A Record of Silencing and Dismissal -- Bibliography -- Chapter 10: Young Voices, an Old Problem: When Latin American Chroniclers Tell Stories About Childhood and Youth -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Part III: Representation: Strategies for Change -- Chapter 11: Social Justice as a Political Act: Action and Memory in the Journalism of Rodolfo Walsh -- Hope and Expectations -- La Revolución Libertadora -- Valle, Tanco, and the Operation Massacre -- Publishing the Unpublishable: Awakening and Transformation of a Writer -- The Disenchantment -- Memory and Social Justice -- Bibliography -- Chapter 12: American Literary Journalism as Liberatory Praxis: Narrative Experimentation and Social Justice -- George Packer -- Claudia Rankine -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 13: Literary Journalism and the Scales of Justice: A New Mobilities Approach -- Introduction: Literary Journalism, Social Justice, and the New Mobilities Paradigm -- Literary Journalism as a Physically Mobile Genre -- Literary Journalism as a Rhetorically Mobile Genre -- "Scalar Fluency" in Every Day We Live Is the Future -- Conclusion: Literary Journalism as a Model for Mobilities Research -- Bibliography -- Chapter 14: Literary Journalism and the American Prison Press -- Writing and Reporting Behind the Wall. ; Literary Prison Journalism, a Historical Overview in Three Stories -- Bibliography -- Chapter 15: Communication Across Borders: Testimonial Memoir as Literary Journalism for Mobility Justice -- Introduction -- Mobility Justice -- Real-Time Memoir as Literary Journalism -- Wuhan Diary -- No Friend but the Mountains -- Fact Versus Fiction in Literary Journalism -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Untitled -- Chapter 16: Territorial Rights, Identity, and Environmental Challenges in Latin American Literary Journalism -- Introduction -- Challenges for Environmental Justice in Latin America -- Narrative Journalism and the Environment -- An Ethnographic Approach in Order to Identify Injustices -- Investigating the Conflict: Opposing Visions, Recognition, and Participation -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Reportages Analyzed -- Chapter 17: Literary Journalism and Critical Social Practice: Latino and African Immigrant Communities in the Works of Gabriel Thompson and Rui Simões -- Literary Journalism and Social Justice -- Gabriel Thompson and Engaged Literary Journalism at the Bottom of the Workforce -- Rui Simões Reporting the Positive-Negative Duality of the Ghetto -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Part IV: Response: Changing Attitudes and Prompting Action -- Chapter 18: Phronetic Journalism: How One Reporter's Story Helped Women "Mutilated" by Their Gynaecologist Fight for Social Justice -- The Virtue Map -- Phronetic Journalism -- Research -- Writing -- Reception -- Bibliography -- Chapter 19: Stories, Students, and Social Justice: Literary Journalism as a Teaching Tool for Change -- Transformative Learning Theory -- Attitudes Toward Advocacy in Journalism -- Research Questions -- Method -- Results -- Quantitative Analysis -- Qualitative Analysis -- Discussion -- Limitations and Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Untitled -- Untitled -- Untitled -- Untitled. ; Index.
• Titolo autorizzato: Literary journalism and social justice
• ISBN: 3-030-89420-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910586582703321
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