Central-European Narratives:
Description
The open access book dives into the current shapes and forms of what is variously called non-fiction narrative, creative non-fiction, creative documentary narrative, literary journalism, or reportage in East-Central Europe. This volume defines the region as the area that lies between Germany and Russia, south of Scandinavia and north of Greece and Turkey; countries that all share the common heritage of once belonging to the Communist world during the second half of the 20th Century: Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechia, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, and Ukraine. The chapters focus on the 20th and 21st Century and contemporary developments, motifs, and trends, as well as providing a broader historical context for specific works, authors, and national genre genealogies. With the majority of contributors originating from this region, this collection speaks volumes about the efforts to contribute to the de-westernizationcolonization of the global academic discourse in relevant disciplines and to address global inequities in contemporary knowledge production.
This volume makes a significant contribution to current global research in creative non-fiction and literary journalism and would appeal to scholars of Slavic and Eastern European Studies, media, and cultural studies. No such book currently exists in English. In this sense, what the contributors and volume editors are trying to accomplish with this work is nothing less than canonizing a very important dimension of the genre: the East-Central European tradition.
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Persons
György Túry is affiliated with Corvinus University of Budapest as a full-time faculty member and researcher. He is a two-time Fulbright grantee and has taught, researched, and published in Hungarian, English, and Chinese, in the fields of literary, cultural, and media studies.
Robert Alexander is Associate Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Brock University. A former print journalist and editor, he teaches courses in Creative Non-fiction, Literary Journalism, Journalism, Rhetoric, and the History of Linguistic Thought.
Content
Chapter 1: "Replacing Political Discourse with Literary Reportage: The Reportage Section of the Hungarian Weekly Élet és Irodalom and Its Principal Motifs (1965-1993)".- Chapter 2: "Literary Journalism and Transition in Bulgaria: The Lost Genres".- Chapter 3: "Giving Voice to the Voiceless: The Narrative Nonfiction of Zsolt Csalog: Oral History and 'Sociography' as Empowerment in Hungary".- Chapter 4: ""Super-stories': How Romanian Reportage Stands as a Truffle in the Fast-Food Journalism Chain".- Chapter 5: "'New' True Crime Reportage in Poland: Zeby nie bylo sladów [Leave No Traces] by Cezary Lazarewicz".- Chapter 6: ""Viva Ludez - a case study of literary journalism in the post-Yugoslav region".- Chapter 7: ""Emotion Without Emotion in Polish Literary Reportage: An Analysis of Wojciech Tochman's Like Eating a Stone: Surviving the Past in Bosnia".- Chapter 8: "Plagiarism and its Intersection with Political Dynamics: Exploring Investigative Journalism within the Quagmire of Doctoral Title Acquisition in Romania, with Emilia Sercan and Melania Cincea".- Chapter 9: "Literary Journalism in Slovakia: Before and After the Murder of Jan Kuciak".- Chapter 10: "The Aesthetics of Greyness: Post-Socialist Housing Estates in Poland as a Theme of Contemporary Polish Literary Journalism".- Chapter 11: "Baltic Creative Nonfiction Narratives About the Soviet Past: A Case Study of Giedre Zickyte and Ilze Burkovska-Jacobsen".- Chapter 12: "The Ugly Truth About Slovakia? Andrej Bán and Martin M. Simecka's Reportage on their Homeland".- Chapter 13: ""The Polish Gaze: How Czechs See Poles Looking at Them".- Chapter 14: "Soft Power, Colonialism, or 'Natural Process'? Ziemowit Szczerek's Liberal Historiography".- Chapter 15: "Mariupol Diaries. Citizens' Diaries as Source of Information From A Besieged City".- Chapter 16: ""War Reportage in Ukraine: Trends, Tools, Experiments, Challenges".