This book examines the prominent place which a commitment to social justice and equity has occupied in the global history of literary journalism. With international case studies, it explores and theorizes the way some literary journalists have addressed inequality and its consequences in their practice. In the process, this volume focuses on the critical attitude the writers of this genre bring to their stories, the immersive reporting they use to gain detailed and intimate knowledge of their stories’ subjects, and the array of innovative rhetorical strategies on which they draw to represent those encounters. The book’s contributors explain how these strategies encourage readers to respond to injustices of class, race, indigeneity, gender, mobility, and access to knowledge. Together, they make the case that, throughout its history, literary journalism has proven uniquely well adapted to fusing facts with feeling in a way which makes it a compelling force for social change. weiterlesen