Literary Journalism and Social Justice

Acknowledgments
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Tables
Chapter 1: Introduction: Literary Journalism and Social Justice
	Part One: Approach: An Appetite for Justice
	Part Two: Encounter: Engaging Subjects
	Part Three: Representation: Strategies for Change
	Part IV: Response: Changing Attitudes and Prompting Action
	Bibliography
Part I: Approach: An Appetite for Justice
	Chapter 2: “Throw the Rich Woman’s Castoffs Back in Her Face”: Moa Martinson’s Rejection of Charity in Favour of Class-Based Solidarity
		Introduction
		Literary Journalism on the Side of the Oppressed
		Charity’s Humiliation of the Poor
		Co-opting the Poor
		Conclusion
		Bibliography
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	Chapter 3: Louis Roubaud, Social Justice and Lost Children
		Bibliography
	Chapter 4: The Poetics of Resistance: The Literary Journalism of India’s Dalit Protest Movement
		Theorizing Anti-caste Literary Journalism
		Kandasamy’s Activist Journalism
		Toward a Poetics of Resistance
		Conclusion
		Bibliography
Part II: Encounter: Engaging Subjects
	Chapter 5: Witnessing and the Theorization of Reportage
		From Neutral Medium to Responsible Witness
		Fascism and the Writer as Producer
		Conclusion: More Than Text
		Bibliography
	Chapter 6: Telling a True Story No One Wants to Read: Literary Journalism and Child Sexual Abuse
		Introduction
		The Difficulty of Engaging the Public on Child Sexual Abuse
		The Scandal of Child Sexual Abuse and the Catholic Church in Australia
		The Role of Book-Length Journalism in Covering Child Sexual Abuse and the Church
		The Writing of Cardinal: The Rise and Fall of George Pell
		Conclusion
		Bibliography
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	Chapter 7: Standpoint Theory and Trauma: Giving Voice to the Voiceless
		Introduction
		Standpoint Theory
		Social Justice Theory
		Standpoint as Social Justice Within Literary Journalism
		Case Studies
			Huckstepp: A Dangerous Life (2000)
				Recreating a Deceased Person Through Transcript, Interviews and Letters
			Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence (1996)
				Second Generation Telling of Life Story
		Evaluation
		Conclusion
		Bibliography
			Author Interviews
	Chapter 8: Making Visible the Invisible: George Orwell’s “Marrakech”
		Bibliography
	Chapter 9: Bearing Witness to Epistemic Injustice: Joan Baxter’s The Mill
		Whose Knowledge Counts?
		Bearing Witness as a Literary Journalist
		A Record of Silencing and Dismissal
		Bibliography
	Chapter 10: Young Voices, an Old Problem: When Latin American Chroniclers Tell Stories About Childhood and Youth
		Conclusion
		Bibliography
Part III: Representation: Strategies for Change
	Chapter 11: Social Justice as a Political Act: Action and Memory in the Journalism of Rodolfo Walsh
		Hope and Expectations
		La Revolución Libertadora
		Valle, Tanco, and the Operation Massacre
		Publishing the Unpublishable: Awakening and Transformation of a Writer
		The Disenchantment
		Memory and Social Justice
		Bibliography
	Chapter 12: American Literary Journalism as Liberatory Praxis: Narrative Experimentation and Social Justice
		George Packer
		Claudia Rankine
		Conclusion
		Bibliography
	Chapter 13: Literary Journalism and the Scales of Justice: A New Mobilities Approach
		Introduction: Literary Journalism, Social Justice, and the New Mobilities Paradigm
		Literary Journalism as a Physically Mobile Genre
		Literary Journalism as a Rhetorically Mobile Genre
		“Scalar Fluency” in Every Day We Live Is the Future
		Conclusion: Literary Journalism as a Model for Mobilities Research
		Bibliography
	Chapter 14: Literary Journalism and the American Prison Press
		Writing and Reporting Behind the Wall
		Literary Prison Journalism, a Historical Overview in Three Stories
		Bibliography
	Chapter 15: Communication Across Borders: Testimonial Memoir as Literary Journalism for Mobility Justice
		Introduction
		Mobility Justice
		Real-Time Memoir as Literary Journalism
			Wuhan Diary
			No Friend but the Mountains
		Fact Versus Fiction in Literary Journalism
		Conclusion
		Bibliography
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	Chapter 16: Territorial Rights, Identity, and Environmental Challenges in Latin American Literary Journalism
		Introduction
		Challenges for Environmental Justice in Latin America
		Narrative Journalism and the Environment
			An Ethnographic Approach in Order to Identify Injustices
			Investigating the Conflict: Opposing Visions, Recognition, and Participation
		Conclusion
		Bibliography
			Reportages Analyzed
	Chapter 17: Literary Journalism and Critical Social Practice: Latino and African Immigrant Communities in the Works of Gabriel Thompson and Rui Simões
		Literary Journalism and Social Justice
		Gabriel Thompson and Engaged Literary Journalism at the Bottom of the Workforce
		Rui Simões Reporting the Positive-Negative Duality of the Ghetto
		Conclusion
		Bibliography
Part IV: Response: Changing Attitudes and Prompting Action
	Chapter 18: Phronetic Journalism: How One Reporter’s Story Helped Women “Mutilated” by Their Gynaecologist Fight for Social Justice
		The Virtue Map
		Phronetic Journalism
		Research
		Writing
		Reception
		Bibliography
	Chapter 19: Stories, Students, and Social Justice: Literary Journalism as a Teaching Tool for Change
		Transformative Learning Theory
		Attitudes Toward Advocacy in Journalism
		Research Questions
		Method
		Results
			Quantitative Analysis
			Qualitative Analysis
		Discussion
		Limitations and Conclusion
		Bibliography
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Index