Literary Journalism across the Globe: Journalistic Traditions and Transnational Influences

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ix Contents Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 John S. Bak Part I: Toward a Theory of International Literary Journalism 1. Literary Reportage: The “Other” Literary Journalism John C. HaRtsoCk 23 2. Reportage in the U.K.: A Hidden Genre? Jenny MCKay 47 3. 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 61 4. The Counter-Coriolis Effect: Contemporary Literary Journalism in a Shrinking World David ABRahamson 79 5. The Evolutionary Future of American and International Literary Journalism NoRman Sims 85 Part II: Journalistic Traditions 6. Dutch Literary Journalism: From Pamphlet to Newspaper (ca. 1600–1900) Clazina Dingemanse and RutgeR de GRaaf 95 7. Literary Journalism’s Magnetic Pull: Britain’s “New” Journalism and the Portuguese at the Fin-de-Siècle IsaBel SoaRes 118 8. Literary Journalism in Spain: Past, Present (and Future?) Sonia PaRRatt 134 9. Social Movements and Chinese Literary Reportage Peiqin Chen 148 10. A Century of Nonfiction Solitude: A Survey of Brazilian Literary Journalism Edvaldo PeReiRa Lima 162 11. Literary Journalism in Twentieth-Century Finland MaRia Lassila-MeRisalo 184 Part III: Transnational Influences 12. Riding the Rails with Robin Hyde: Literary Journalism in 1930s New Zealand Nikki Hessell 211 13. James Agee’s “Continual Awareness,” Untold Stories: “Saratoga Springs” and “Havana Cruise” William Dow 225 14. Željko Kozinc, the Subversive Reporter: Literary Journalism in Slovenia Sonja MeRljak ZdovC 238 15. Creditable or Reprehensible? The Literary Journalism of Helen Garner Willa MCDonald 260 16. Ryszard Kapuściński and the Borders of Documentarism: Toward Exposure without Assumption Soenke Zehle 276 Contributors 295 Index 299 x Contents ...