[ecrea] CFP - 'Literary Journalism' conference (Warwick, 26 November 2016)

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/A one-day interdisciplinary conference/*
**Literary Journalism in Times of Crisis and Transition (1870-1970)**
   University of Warwick, 26th November 2016

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/Confirmed keynote speakers:/
*Susan Greenberg* (University of Roehampton, London)
*David Walker* (University of Sheffield)

*Call for papers*
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Literary journalism, also known as ‘narrative journalism’, is a form of 
creative nonfiction that draws on the research methods of journalism and 
the storytelling techniques and literary style of narrative. Throughout 
its history, it has been shaped as a genre by transnational and 
cross-cultural influences, and it has assumed as many variations as the 
countries and printing traditions in which it has blossomed.

This interdisciplinary conference seeks to investigate the role played 
by literary journalism in capturing historical and social changes on a 
global scale over the time span of a century, from the 1870s to the 1970s.

The 1870s witnessed events that had a far-reaching impact on the course 
of history to follow and defined narrative journalism throughout the 
late 19th century in Europe and beyond. As readers and journalists alike 
seek to make sense of their individual role and place in a continuously 
transforming historical reality, narrative nonfiction can be seen as an 
attempt to answer such concerns. The struggle assumes a character of 
urgency as the turn of the century nears, while the accompanying 
technological innovations of the Second Industrial revolution reshape 
the perception of time and space. Having radically transformed the 
communication system, these developments pave the way for a variety of 
new formal and conceptual journalistic approaches: industrialised 
journalism; New Journalism (1890s); photo-journalism; published 
interviews; the rise of the figures of news agency reporters and foreign 
correspondents.

The two World Wars, the post-war economic booms across Europe and 
beyond, the rise of mass consumerism, social reforms, and, last but not 
least, the radical cultural changes of the mid-20th century, all offer a 
fertile ground for the development of narrative nonfiction. We choose to 
limit the time span of the analysis to the 1970s considering that the 
instatement of television as a primary player in the domain of media and 
communication arguably relayed print literary journalism as a reporting 
style with its long-standing traditions, at least temporarily, into the 
background.

We invite papers that explore the creative relationship between literary 
journalism and social change over the focus time frame. We particularly 
appreciate a transnational and interdisciplinary perspective, including 
media studies, history, literature, and cultural politics. On the other 
hand, we also welcome contributions that shed light on the peculiarity 
of narrative journalism as a genre and that investigate its formal 
evolution, adaptability, and permeability as a hybrid form.

*Possible topics include, but are by no means limited to: **
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*•    historical and social changes in narrative nonfiction between the 
1870s and the 1970s;
•    chronicles from modern metropolises (e.g. world fairs, artistic and 
technological exhibitions, portrayals of metropolitan life);
•    the emergence of the foreign correspondent and other new 
professional journalistic figures;
•    literary approaches to war reportage (late-19th-century conflicts 
in European and non-European countries, the two World Wars, 
anti-colonial uprisings, terrorism);
•    post-war reconstruction and counterculture movements of the 1960s 
and 1970s in creative nonfiction accounts;
•    journals, newspapers, and magazines that work as forums and 
catalysts for literary journalists, by promoting creative nonfiction 
stories;
•    cross-cultural contaminations of narrative journalism as a genre;
•    journalism and photography: the interplay of the visual and textual 
in literary journalism;
•    evolution of creative, literary and narrative nonfiction from a 
transnational perspective.

Please send a 300-word abstract for a 20-minute paper, accompanied by a 
brief academic CV to  (literaryjournalismconf /at/ gmail.com) ***by 7th 
September 2016*.

For info and details: http://goo.gl/0RmV1v
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/Organized by HRC Doctoral Fellows Sara Boezio ((S.Boezio /at/ warwick.ac.uk)) 
and Giulia Brecciaroli ((G.Brecciaroli /at/ warwick.ac.uk)), School of Modern 
Languages and Cultures - University of Warwick./



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