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Author:   David Swick (University of King’s College, Canada) ,  Richard Lance Keeble (University of Lincoln, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781032410258

ISBN 10:   1032410256
Pages:   200
Publication Date:   05 September 2023
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Intimate Understanding through Profound Immersion Part 1 Nothing Barred: How Reporting Can Humanise the Criminal ‘Other’ 1. On Death Row: Giving Voice to Apartheid’s Forgotten Prisoners 2. ‘Feeling the Facts’: Literary Journalism, Colonialism and Behrouz Boochani’s No Friend but the Mountains 3. ‘We Risked a Whole Newspaper’: Thami Mkhwanazi’s Robben Island Series and the Weekly Mail Part 2 Fully Inside? The Challenges of ‘Immersion’ Reporting 4. Writing from the Inside: First-Person Reportage of Prison Life by the Incarcerated 5. The Sorry Places: Cristina Rathbone’s A World Apart 6. The Architecture of Immersive Writing: Sites of (Self-)Scrutiny in Ted Conover’s Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 7. The Hot House: Reporting and Writing Strategies to Navigate Deep Immersion Part 3 Breaking Out: Exploring Diverse Definitions for Literary Journalism 8. Dialogues with Death: Fact, Fiction and the Many Adaptations of Arthur Koestler’s Prison Narrative 9. George Orwell: Making Writing on Prisons ‘An Art’ 10. Ear Hustle: Connecting to Prison Life Through a Narrative Podcast 11. Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Reportorial Story Songs’ – Grace and Kinship on Death Row Afterword: Journalists’ Many Creative Ways of Covering the Correctional System

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This much needed, timely collection engages with prison writing in a radically new way. At a time when civil liberties are increasingly at peril and democratic freedoms are under threat, the diversity of authors presented, the variety of texts studied, and the range of methods showcased reveal the deep commitment and manifest strike force of literary journalism. As the editors rightly argue, immersion is key to the genre. Literary journalism allows for innovative approaches and original insights, not only by incarcerated people but by journalists skilled at overcoming obstacles. The editors’ tour de force lies in presenting chapters focusing on both well-known – Mandela, Boochani, Koestler, Orwell, Conover – and unexpected case studies. Together, they convincingly make the case that literary journalism is an excellent genre to tell inspirational stories of courage and resilience. Isabelle Meuret, Associate Professor, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium This remarkable book of scholarship examines the unique power of literary journalism across the globe to illuminate one of life’s darkest experiences. It explores questions pivotal to the field of literary journalism studies and our emerging understanding of prison life. These include… what might immersion reporting reveal when the writer is incarcerated? How can journalists from “outside” navigate the tensions between prisoners’ values and their own? How can literary journalism about prison enrich and be enriched by other storytelling genres: memoir, letters, oral histories, audio narratives, encrypted digital messages, even songwriting? And how can anyone — reporter or subject — write without restraint about a world of restraints? Lisa Phillips, Associate Professor, Digital Media and Journalism, State University of New York, New Paltz, NY, USA

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David Swick is Associate Professor of Journalism at the University of King’s College in Halifax, Canada. He teaches courses to both undergraduate and master’s students, including magazine features, opinion writing, and literary journalism. Before moving into teaching, Swick was an award-winning journalist. His growing body of work includes dozens of magazine articles, hour-long documentaries for CBC Radio, scripts for TV documentaries, nearly 1,800 newspaper columns, and one non-fiction book. He has co-edited two international anthologies of humour in journalism, The Pleasures of the Prose (2015) and The Funniest Pages – International Perspectives on Humor in Journalism (2016). Richard Lance Keeble is Professor of Journalism at the University of Lincoln and Honorary Professor at Liverpool Hope University. He has written and edited 49 books on a range of subjects including literary journalism, practical newspaper reporting skills, media ethics, George Orwell, peace journalism, the coverage of US/UK militarism and the secret state, investigative journalism, the Hackgate controversy and digital journalism. He gained a National Teaching Fellowship in 2011 – the highest award for teachers in higher education in the UK – and in 2014 received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association for Journalism Education. From 2013 to 2020 he was chair of the Orwell Society.

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