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Mediating the Real : Self-Reflection in Recent American Reportage
Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Series: Gegenwartsliteratur SeriesPublisher: Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, 2024Description: 1 Online-Ressource (307 p.)ISBN:- 9783839473269
- 818 23/eng/20240725
- PS366.R44
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Summary: 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 fieldPPN: PPN: 1916209319Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-94-OAB
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Mediating Mediatized Realities -- A Postmodern Approach -- The Mediality of Literary Journalism -- Mediatization and Reportage -- The Critique of Technical Mediation -- Writers as Human Media -- Presence and Production -- Self-Reflection in Recent American Reportage -- 1 Reportage and Mediation -- 1.1 The Complications of 'Literary Journalism' -- Hierarchical Distinctions and Blurred Boundaries -- Against the Idealization of Literary Journalism -- 1.2 The Human Qualities of Reportage
Perception Against Profession: The Beginnings of Reportage -- Observation and Experiment -- Reportage's Political Turn -- Fascism and the Writer as Producer -- 1.3 The Human Medium Inspecting Itself -- The Mediality of Witness and Reporter -- Self-Reflection: Embodied Interplay of Confirmation and Critique -- 2 On Real Communing: Mediating Coordinated Experience -- 2.1 Authenticity and Uncertainty in Touristic Experience -- 2.2 The Desperate Medium in David Foster Wallace's "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again" (1997) -- A Pseudojournalist -- The Recording Human
The Objectified Human Subject -- The Desperately Dialoguing Narrator -- Self-Reflection Against Alienation -- 2.3 The Believing Medium in George Saunders's "The New Mecca" (2005) -- Paid-or Not-to Have Fun-or Not -- The Subjective Effect of Objective Experience -- Confusion and Possibility -- Potentially Bonding Text -- Basic Belief -- 2.4 The Incapable Medium in John Jeremiah Sullivan's "Upon This Rock" (2012) -- The Willing Recruit Themselves: Experience as (Near) Accident -- The Accepting Writer Anticipates a Doubtful Reader -- Past and Future to Make Sense of the Present -- Strong Weakness
2.5 Uncertainties and the Negotiation of Trust in Communing -- 3 On Real Bodies: Mediating Other Human Media -- 3.1 Reflexive Subjectivities and Their Differences -- 3.2 The Mysterious Medium in George Saunders's "Buddha Boy" (2007) -- Mysterious Motivation -- The Master Mediator -- The Buddhist Base -- Mysterious Mind-Control -- 3.3 Aware Media in John Jeremiah Sullivan's "Getting Down to What is Really Real" (2011) -- Technical Media and Human Plasticity -- The Viewer Versus the Writer -- The Reality of Emotion -- The Fiction Within -- Text As Reality Show -- Awareness of Self-Awareness
3.4 Different Media in Mac McClelland's "Delusion is the Thing With Feathers" (2017) -- Lived Bodies and Self-Sacrifice -- The Different Professional -- Mediating Body and Mediated Bird -- Between Cynicism and Necessity -- Productive Difference and the Possibilities of Delusion -- 3.5 The Possibilities of Reflexivity -- 4 On Real Fragmentation: Mediating Violence -- 4.1 Material and Symbolic Violence -- 4.2 The Fractured Medium in George Saunders's "Tent City, U.S.A." (2009) -- The Structural Violence of Homelessness -- A Researcher Out of Place
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