Rezensiert von Nora Berning

Published in 2014, Global Literary Journalism: Exploring the Journalistic Imagination is the sequel of the first volume with the same title, which appeared in 2012. With this second volume, the editors have taken on the difficult task of not only broadening the scope considerably – both in terms of the themes and countries as well as authors covered –, but, moreover, they have attempted to close those gaps of research, which, over the years, have been addressed in the context of the annual conventions of the International Association for Literary Journalism Studies and have emerged as desiderata in the previous volume. These include, for instance, a more detailed analysis of the origins of literary journalism, a critical engagement with female writers and non-elite sources, and a thorough examination of the power of storytelling as well as an investigation of the journalistic imagination as both a central cultural field and a contested terrain, as Richard Lance Keeble writes in the introduction. Mehr