Fear and Loathing Worldwide

Robert Alexander is Associate Professor of English Language and Literature at Brock University, Ontario, Canada. A former reporter, his academic work has appeared in Literary Journalism Studies, Language and Communication, Semiotic Inquiry/Recherches Sémiotiques, and Criticism.Christine Isager is Associate Professor of Rhetoric at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Her studies in the field of written communication in general and literal journalism in particular have appeared in Rhetorica Scandinavica, Philosophy & Rhetoric, Journalistica, and Literary Journalism Studies.

• IntroductionRobert Alexander (Brock University, Canada)Part I: First Waves, Currents of Tradition1. Gonzo Down Under: Matthew Thompson and the Literary and Political Legacy of Hunter S. ThompsonChristopher Kremmer (University of New South Wales, Australia)2. Diffusion of the Inimitable: Helge Timmerberg and the Advent of German Gonzo Tobias Eberwein (Austrian Academy of Sciences and Alpen-Adria University, Austria)3. Gonzo Journalism in France: "Another Kind of Journalism is Possible"Honorine Reussard (Royaumont Abbaye & Fondation, France)4. Gonzo Brazilian Style: Arthur Veríssimo´s Adaptations of Thompson's Journalism Monica Martinez (University of Sorocaba, Brazil) and Mateus Yuri Passos (Universidade Metodista de São Paulo, Brazil)Part II: Gonzo as Socio-Political Intervention5. Australia's Elisabeth Wynhausen and a Century of Gonzo EthnographySue Joseph (University of Technology Sydney, Australia)6. Loathing in Southern Denmark: Gonzo Ethos in a Showdown with Tabloid Journalism Christine Isager (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) 7. “Among Madmen and Crooks”: Stella Braam's Strange and Terrible Saga of Total Immersion in AmsterdamHilde Van Belle (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)8. The Truth is Always Gonzo: David Leigh, Politics, and the Frontiers of SecrecyNick Nuttall (London, UK)Part III: Gender and the Osmotic Gonzo Body9. “Mastering the Art of Being Powerless and Completely Stupid”: Australian Gonzo as l'Écriture MasculineFiona Giles (University of Sydney, Australia)10. La Revista Prohibida Para las Mujeres: Gonzo By Women in SoHo Magazine of Colombia, South AmericaCarlos A. Cortés-Martínez (University of Missouri, USA), Berkley Hudson (University of Missouri, USA), and Joy Jenkins (University of Oxford, UK)11. The Return of Gonzo through the Female Body: Gabriela Wiener and the Journalist as a Sexual VortexPablo Calvi (Stony Brook University, USA)Part IV: Edgework, Fantasy, and Truth12. Scatological Anecdotes, Heavy Drinking, and Backpacker Culture: Gonzo humor and Edgework in Contemporary Finnish JournalismJoonas Koivukoski (University of Helsinki, Finland) and Janne Zareff (University of Jyväskylä, Finland)13. Fear and Loathing in the Desert of the Real: Hunter S. Thompson, “Hannibal Elector,” and the 2014 South African General ElectionRobert Alexander (Brock University, Canada)14. Cultural Insight by Way of Distortion: Ziemowit Szczerek's Introduction and Immediate Deconstruction of Gonzo in PolandMateusz Zimnoch (Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland)Part V: The Continuing Story of Gonzo Worldwide15. The Hijacking of “Gonzo”: In Name Only, Hunter S. Thompson's Style is Everywhere on the InternetJacqueline Marino (Kent State University, USA)16. Future Gonzo by Spider Jerusalem: Thompson's Journalism Adapted to the World of the Graphic NovelAshlee Nelson (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)Afterword: Gonzo Without End, AmenWilliam McKeen (Boston University, USA)Index

Hunter Thompson once told a young audience in Boulder, Colorado, not to trust him. He 'used to test drugs at Rolling Stone Magazine,' for heaven’s sake. Don’t trust anyone, he said. Go find out for yourself. His advice has been taken by the contributors to this volume, which revives the legacy of the good Doctor of Journalism all around the world.