Global Literary Journalism: Exploring the Journalistic Imagination, Volume 2

by Richard Lance Keeble (Editor), John Tulloch (Editor)

Overview

This new volume significantly expands the scope of the study of literary journalism both geographically and thematically. Chapters explore literary journalism not only in the UK, US and India - but also in countries such as Australia, France, Brazil and Portugal not covered in the first volume, while its central themes help lead the study of literary journalism into previously unchartered territory.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781433124709
Publisher:	Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Publication date:	05/28/2014
Series:	Mass Communication and Journalism , #15
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	306
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.06(h) x (d)

About the Author

Richard Lance Keeble is Professor of Journalism at the University of Lincoln. He is the winner of the 2011 National Teaching Fellowship – the highest award for teachers in higher education in the United Kingdom. He is the author and editor of 27 books including The Journalistic Imagination: Literary Journalists from Defoe to Capote and Carter (2007, with Sharon Wheeler) and is the joint editor of Ethical Space: The International Journal of Communication Ethics.
John Tulloch, who died in October 2013, was Professor of Journalism and Head of the School of Journalism at the University of Lincoln from 2004–2012. He wrote on a wide range of topics including literary journalism, media ethics, peace and human rights reporting, the coverage of the ‘war on terror,’ and journalism history. From 1995–2003 he was Chair of the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Westminster.

Table of Contents

Contents: John Drew: Leigh Hunt and His Versatile, Trenchant, Observant, Empathetic, Witty Journalism – Jane L. Chapman: Gandhi as Literary Journalist in Hind Swaraj – Ian Kilroy: Never Myles from the News: The «Meta-Journalism» of Myles na gCopaleen – Nick Nuttall: The Real «Scoop»: Waugh in Abyssinia – Roberta S. Maguire: African American Literary Journalism in the 1950s – Mateus Yuri Passos: A Critical Overview of Brazilian Literary Journalism: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow – Isabel Soares: Literary Journalism on War and Imperialism: The British Annexation of Egypt Viewed by Portuguese Eça de Queirós – Nick Nuttall: «Certain Americans and an Englishman»: D. H. Lawrence and the American Indians – Richard Lance Keeble: Rajiv Chandrasekaran’s Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Beyond the Court Jester? – Marie-Ève Thérenty: Duras, Definitely Duras: Tradition and Innovation in the Literary Journalism of Marguerite D. – Edvaldo Pereira Lima/ Monica Martinez/Eliane Brum: New Star in Brazil’s Literary Journalism Firmament – Bill Reynolds: «Greenwich Village at Night» and Mary McCarthy’s Immersion Journalism – John Tulloch: Journalism, Imagination and the Art of Fact: The Work of Geoffrey Moorhouse – N. Ram: More than «A Little Pot-Boiling»: The Personal Journalism of R. K. Narayan – Juan Domingues: New Journalism in Portuguese: From 19th-Century Literary Journalists to the Present Day – Bill Reynolds: Charles Bowden and Ciudad Juárez – Nalini Rajan: Indian Literary Journalism in the Age of Mobile Phones – Susie Eisenhuth: «Long-Form Journalism Is Absolutely Not Dead. What Is Dead Is Bad Long-Form».