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Mediating the Real: Self-Reflection in Recent American Reportage
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Abstract As a literary genre, the nonfictional reportage has particular implications for the role of the writer. Pascal Sigg shows how six U.S. American writers, including David Foster Wallace, George Saunders, and Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah, reflect on themselves as human media in their reportage. The writers as... view more
As a literary genre, the nonfictional reportage has particular implications for the role of the writer. Pascal Sigg shows how six U.S. American writers, including David Foster Wallace, George Saunders, and Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah, reflect on themselves as human media in their reportage. The writers assert themselves in a postmodern way by scrutinizing their own mediation. As it also traces and develops the theorization of reportage as genre along the reporters' early concerns with technical media, this pioneering contribution to literary journalism studies paves a way for a new materialist approach in the under-researched field.... view less
Keywords
literature; media; digital media; mediation; human being
Classification
Science of Literature, Linguistics
Free Keywords
Literary Journalism; Reportage; Self-Reflection; Mediatization; Human; American Studies; Literary Studies
Document language
English
Publication Year
2024
Publisher
transcript Verlag
City
Bielefeld
Page/Pages
305 p.
Series
Contemporary Literature, 27
DOI
https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839473269
ISSN
2703-0474
ISBN
978-3-8394-7326-9
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed