Perilous Reckonings: American Literary Journalism as a World Literary Journalism

• Autores: William Dow
• Localización: The Routledge Companion to World Literary Journalism / John S. Bak (ed. lit.), Bill Reynolds (ed. lit.), 2023, ISBN 978-0-367-35524-1, págs. 154-178
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This chapter will focus on the distinct forms of a “world literary journalism” that a certain group of representative nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first century American writers—Margaret Fuller, Ida B. Wells, John Dos Passos, James Baldwin, and Katherine Boo—consciously strived for, participated in, or were or are inadvertently a part of. All are or were accomplished fiction and nonfiction writers. All are or were activists or in the spirit of a political activism that contravenes literary journalism as a solitary and univocal endeavor. Rather, these and other literary journalists discussed in this chapter converse with their subjects, contend with events, critique their predecessors, and engage in acts of social and political collaboration. By doing so, they participate in creating a “world culture” that not only suggests a “flexible citizenship,” often challenging older conceptions of national autonomy and rootedness, but also provides an index to what literary journalism might mean in an evolving planetary context.