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Literary Journalism Studies Vol. 8, No. 2, Fall 2016 Francophone Literary Journalism: A Special Issue Information for Contributors 4 Note from the Editor 5 Francophone Literary Journalism: Exploring Its Vital Edges by Isabelle Meuret, Paul Aron, and Marie-Ève Thérenty 9 The Appearance of a Court Column: Colette and the Famous Murder Trials of the Early Twentieth Century by Amélie Chabrier 14 The Mille Collines of Marie Gevers: From Reportage to Literary Text by Paul Aron 24 Occupation: Flying Parcel. Portrait of Marc Augis, Woman, Journalist, Author by Vanessa Gemis 38 Toward a History of Reportage in French Canada: From the Beginning of the Twentieth Century to Gabrielle Roy by Guillaume Pinson 52 “An Hour of Our Life in the Mirror of My Mood”: Innovations and Legacies of French Literary Journalism in the Work of Françoise Giroud by Marie-Ève Thérenty 64 French Reporters, Real and Fictional Transmitters of Colonial Ideology, 1890–1900 by Mélodie Simard-Houde 76 Can the Indigenous Speak? Speech of the Colonized in Nineteenth-century Algerian Colonial Press by Laure Demougin 90 Scholar-Practitioner Q+A Isabelle Meuret and Florence Le Cam Interview Jean Hatzfeld 102 Keynote Address, IALJS-11, Porto Alegre, Brazil, May 19, 2016 Reading Otherwise: Literary Journalism as an Aesthetic Narrative Cosmopolitanism by William Dow 118 Digital LJ Reading Screens: What Eye Tracking Tells Us about the Writing in Digital Longform Journalism by Jacqueline Marino 138 Book Reviews 151 Mission Statement 178 International Association for Literary Journalism Studies 179 2 Literary Journalism Studies, Vol. 8, No. 2, Fall 2016 3 Copyright © 2016 Literary Journalism Studies International Association for Literary Journalism Studies All rights reserved Editor Advisory Board Bill Reynolds Robert Alexander, John S. Bak, Ryerson University R. Thomas Berner, Myriam Boucharenc, Canada Robert S. Boynton, Thomas B. Connery, Juan Domingues, David Eason, Website: www.literaryjournalismstudies.org Associate Editors Tobias Eberwein, Shelley Fisher Fishkin, William Dow Leonora Flis, Kathy Roberts Forde, Literary Journalism Studies is the journal of the International Association for American University of Paris Brian Gabrial, Ellen Garvey, France Literary Journalism Studies and is published twice yearly. For information on Susan Greenberg, Vera Hanna, subscribing or membership, go to www.ialjs.org. Miles Maguire Roberto Herrscher, Tim Holmes, University of Wisconsin Beate Josephi, Richard Lance Keeble, Member of the Oshkosh, United States Willa McDonald, Jenny McKay, Council of Editors of Learned Journals Isabelle Meuret, John J. Pauly, Roberta S. Maguire Guillaume Pinson, Josh Roiland, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, United States Barry Siegel, Norman Sims, Isabel Soares, Marie-Ève Thérenty, Alice Donat Trindade, Kate McQueen Andie Tucher, Doug Underwood, University of Illinois at Jan Whitt, Christopher P. Wilson, Urbana-Champaign Mateusz Zimnoch, Sonja Merljak Zvodc United States Designer Book Review Editor Anthony DeRado Nancy L. Roberts University at Albany, SUNY United States Web Administrator Nicholas Jackson Publisher David Abrahamson Founding Editor Northwestern University United States John C. Hartsock Published twice a year, Spring and Fall issues. Subscriptions, $50/year (individuals), $75/year (libraries). Editorial Offices Literary Journalism Studies School of Journalism Ryerson University 350 Victoria Street Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5B 2K3 ISSN 1944-897X (paper) Email: [email protected] ISSN 1944-8988 (online) Published at the Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University 1845 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208, United States 4 Literary Journalism Studies, Vol. 8, No. 2, Fall 2016 SUBMISSION INFORMATION ITERARY JOURNALISM STUDIES invites submissions of original scholarly L articles on literary journalism, which is also known as narrative journalism, liter- ary reportage, reportage literature, New Journalism, and the nonfiction novel, as well as literary and narrative nonfiction that emphasizes cultural revelation. The journal has an international focus and seeks submissions on the theory, history, and pedagogy of literary journalism throughout the world. All disciplinary approaches are welcome. Submissions should be informed with an awareness of the existing scholarship and should be between 5,000 and 8,000 words in length, including notes. To encourage international dialogue, the journal is open to publishing on occasion short examples or excerpts of previously published literary journalism accompanied by a scholarly gloss about or an interview with the writer who is not widely known outside his or her country. The example or excerpt must be translated into English. The scholarly gloss or interview should generally be between 1,500 and 2,500 words long and in- dicate why the example is important in the context of its national culture. Together, both the text and the gloss generally should not exceed 8,000 words in length. The contributor is responsible for obtaining all copyright permissions, including from the publisher, author, and translator as necessary. The journal is also willing to consider publication of exclusive excerpts of narrative literary journalism accepted for publica- tion by major publishers. Email submission (as a Microsoft Word attachment) is mandatory. A cover page indi- cating the title of the paper, the author’s name, institutional affiliation, and contact -in formation, along with an abstract (250 words), should accompany all submissions. The cover page should be sent as a separate attachment from the abstract and submission to facilitate distribution to readers. No identification should appear linking the author to the submission or abstract. All submissions must be in English Microsoft Word and follow the Chicago Manual of Style (Humanities endnote style) <http://www.chicago- manualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html>. All submissions will be blind reviewed. Send submissions to the editor at <[email protected]>. Copyright reverts to the contributor after publication with the provision that if re- published reference is made to initial publication in Literary Journalism Studies. OOK REVIEWS are invited. They should be 1,000–2,000 words and focus on Bthe scholarship of literary journalism and recent original works of literary jour- nalism that deserve greater recognition among scholars. Book reviews are not blind reviewed but selected by the book review editor based on merit. Reviewers may sug- gest book review prospects or write the book review editor for suggestions. Usually reviewers will be responsible for obtaining their respective books. Book reviews and/ or related queries should be sent to Nancy L. Roberts at <[email protected]> 5 Note from the Editor… s we occasionally have done in the past, the editors Aof this journal have allowed the issue’s main territory to be occupied by an examination of a particular nation’s literary journalistic output. More precisely, for this issue it is not so much a nation’s literary journalism we are exam- ining as a culture’s. Our guest editor, Isabelle Meuret from Université libre de Bruxelles, has enlisted the services of francophone scholars from France, Belgium, and Canada to provide readers with a portrait of the vitality of liter- ary journalism itself and literary journalism studies in the French language, as well as extended glimpses into the similarities and differences between anglo- phone and francophone literary journalism. I want to congratulate Meuret and her colleagues for pursuing this special is- sue to conclusion. As one might imagine, the journey from the assignment stage onward was long and fraught with difficulties, setbacks, and pitfalls. There were many translation issues to deal with, not to mention the inevitable extra layers of editing involved (not to mention the editor’s perhaps perverse insistence on find- ing wonderful photography and illustration to accompany the various essays). In addition to the seven articles, Meuret and Florence Le Cam interviewed Jean Hatzfeld, the former sports journalist turned political journalist turned literary journalist, on the subject of the Rwandan genocide of the 1990s. That all of this work was accomplished with professionalism and good humor, on both sides of the Atlantic, is testimony to Meuret’s grace. In reading over and editing these essays, I was struck by certain brute facts that affected literary journalism in France. After the Second World War, for in- stance, France consciously turned away from any notion of combining literary with journalistic pursuits. Post-Hitler, and post-Holocaust, a wave of determi- nation seemed to wash away previous reporting strategies. Objectivity became the paramount virtue, which meant that news reports needed to be more rigor- ously fact-based, less imbued with a journalist’s (presumably tainted by defini- tion) point of view of witnessed events. As the scholars explain, this era, which held sway for decades, has now receded to reveal francophone literary journal- ism reclaiming its family resemblance to North American literary journalism. Other historical facts, including the European lust for African exploration, colonization, and exploitation in the nineteenth century, and the explosion in technology (specifically as tied to air travel and the thirst for resources through colonial extraction), provided a strong impetus for literary journalism, or report- age as it is known in the francophone world, however dubious the justifications