Mediating the Real : Self-Reflection in Recent American Reportage

Mediating the Real Self-Reflection in Recent American Reportage

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 as...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sigg, Pascal (-)
Corporate Author: Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) funder (funder)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bielefeld : transcript Verlag 2024.
Edition:1st ed
Series:Gegenwartsliteratur Series
Subjects:
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General.
American Studies.
Digital Media.
Human.
Literary Studies.
Literature.
Media.
Mediation.
Mediatization.
Reportage.
Self-Reflection.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009827236106719
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Mediating Mediatized Realities
  • 1 Reportage and Mediation
  • 1.1 The Complications of ‘Literary Journalism’
  • 1.2 The Human Qualities of Reportage
  • 1.3 The Human Medium Inspecting Itself
  • 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)
  • 2.3 The Believing Medium in George Saunders’s “The New Mecca” (2005)
  • 2.4 The Incapable Medium in John Jeremiah Sullivan’s “Upon This Rock” (2012)
  • 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)
  • 3.3 Aware Media in John Jeremiah Sullivan’s “Getting Down to What is Really Real” (2011)
  • 3.4 Different Media in Mac McClelland’s “Delusion is the Thing With Feathers” (2017)
  • 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)
  • 4.3 The Atoning Medium in Michael Paterniti’s “Should We Get Used To Mass Shootings?” (2016)
  • 4.4 The Resilient Medium in Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah’s “A Most American Terrorist” (2017)
  • 4.5 The Reflexivity of Violence
  • Conclusion
  • The Possibilities of Human Media
  • Bibliography

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