Literary journalism and social justice. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Robert Alexander, Willa McDonald.
• Editors: Alexander, Robert, 1957-; McDonald, Willa
• 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 Simões (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: Boštjan Videmšek 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).
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 809.98; Creative nonfiction -- History and criticism; Social justice in literature
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030894207
• Related ISBNs: 9783030894191
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