Resumen de Introduction [The Routledge Companion to World Literary Journalism]
Like all documentary art, literary journalism sprouts from the human necessity to leave behind an accurate record of its passage on this planet. Some nations never even saw literary journalism as being independent of the realist fiction or the popular press that was already firmly entrenched in their belles-lettres. In this sense, literary journalism is like religion: culturally innate but discriminately migratory, with many of its mutations having been catalyzed by periods of great human confluence, forced or otherwise. New Journalism was surely the most celebrated proponent, which made the world identify literary journalism for years as an American form. Aiming for representation also implied limiting certain countries where literary journalism and its study are prominent and have already received extensive coverage in the secondary literature. The chapter also presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in this book.
