Literary Journalist as a Naturalist

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This book is a scholarly anthology that proposes a deep discussion about the multiple ways in which narrative journalism has portrayed nature, human interactions with nature, the global actions and the consequences of activities that have either attempted to explore it, exploit it, harness it, dominate it, and protect it.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-11-10
Mått148 x 210 x 24 mm
Vikt566 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SeriePalgrave Studies in Literary Journalism
Antal sidor332
FörlagSpringer International Publishing AG
ISBN9783031566332

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Pablo Calvi is an Argentine-American writer and journalist. His long form, which appears in The Believer, Guernica Magazine, The Nation, and El Mercurio (Chile), has been listed as notable in Best American Essays, Best American Travel Writing and Best American Nonrequired Reading. He is author of Latin American Adventures in Literary Journalism (2019), a cultural history of literary journalism in the Americas. He teaches global journalism at Stony Brook University, USA, where he is the associate director for Latin America at the Marie Colvin Center for International Reporting.

1. Introduction: Urgency and its Downfalls: How Have We Covered Nature and Have We Done it Right?.- 2. Anna Krien’s Into The Woods and how to report on Environmental Activism.- 3. John Joseph Mathews: The ‘Blackjack Discourse’ of an Osage Naturalist.- .4. Edible Armageddon. Insect Superheroes and Other Villains.-5. Toward an Activist Aesthetic of Environmental Literary Journalism: Deep and Social Ecology in Thoreau, Carson, and Jenkins.-6. “The Bitter Taste of Extinction”: Writing the Environmental Crisis Through Food.-7. Silent Spring: the rise of the environmental movement.-8. Alive to the slow terror of the megadams: The literary journalism of Jacques Leslie’s Deep Water.-9. Revisiting places and people: how immersion and cohesion are created in Danish digital longform journalism that deals with climate change.- 10. Environmental activism and resistance in Latin America: Literary journalism’s portrayal of the struggle of environmental leaders.- 11. An Ecologist’s Personal Investigation: Sandra Steingraber on Danger, Ecology, and Writing.- 12. How Marjory Stoneman Douglas Saved Environmental Reporting (and maybe the Everglades).- 13.The Naturalist as Literary Journalist: David Attenborough’s sixty years of documentary film-making.- 14.Interviewing Nature: The Dangers and Delights of the Pathetic Fallacy and Anthropomorphism in Nature Writing and Environmental Journalism.- 15. Thanatos syndrome: Literary forms in Domosławski’s Death in the Amazon.- 16. It’s Personal: Women’s Writing on Weather Disaster in the Context of Climate Crisis in Australia.- 17. The Big Picture and the Small Scene: Anna Tsing’s Assemblages vs. Paul Engle’s Workshop, and the Nature In Between.