LITERARY JOURNALISM STUDIES LITERARY Miles Maguire: Recent Trends and Topics in Scholarship Return address: Literary Journalism Studies School of Journalism Ryerson University Literary Journalism Studies 350 Victoria Street Vol. 11, No. 1, June 2019 Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5B 2K3 Indian LJ Indian Cuban LJ German LJ German In This Issue n Katarzyna Frukacz / Melchior Wańkowicz + Polish literary lournaliasm n Holly Schreiber / Miguel Barnet, Oscar Lewis + the culture of poverty Polish LJ n Troy R. E. Paddock / Rolf Brandt + German conservative literary journalism Ameican LJ Belgian LJ Belgian n Digital LJ / David O. Dowling + Subin Paul on Meena Kandasamy n SPQ+A / Isabelle Meuret interviews Pascal Verbeken VOL. 11, NO.1, JUNE 2019 Published at the Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University 1845 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208, United States The Journal of the International Association for Literary Journalism Studies Literary Journalism Studies The Journal of the International Association for Literary Journalism Studies Vol. 11, No. 1, June 2019 Information for Contributors 4 Literary Reportage or Journalistic Fiction? Polish Reporters’ Struggles with the Form by Katarzyna Frukacz 6 Rewriting La Vida: Miguel Barnet and Oscar Lewis on the Culture of Poverty by Holly Schreiber 36 Rolf Brandt and a Conservative Literary Journalism by Troy R. E. Paddock 60 Digital LJ Digital Literary Journalism in Opposition: Meena Kandasamy and the Dalit Online Movement in India by David O. Dowling and Subin Paul 86 Research Review Recent Trends and Topics in Literary Journalism Scholarship by Miles Maguire 100 Scholar–Practitioner Q+A An Interview Pascal Verbeken by Isabelle Meuret 108 Book Reviews Bill Reynolds on Robert A. Caro’s Working, Karen Roggenkamp on Mark Twain and France, Betsy O’Donovan and Sheila Webb on The hellS Game, and Katrina J. Quinn on John McPhee’s The Patch 125 Mission Statement 142 International Association for Literary Journalism Studies 143 2 Literary Journalism Studies, Vol. 11, No. 1, June 2019 Copyright © 2019 International Association for Literary Journalism Studies All rights reserved Website: www.literaryjournalismstudies.org Literary Journalism Studies is the journal of the International Association for Literary Journalism Studies and is published twice yearly. For information on subscribing or membership, go to www.ialjs.org. Member of the Council of Editors of Learned Journals Published twice a year, June and December issues. Subscriptions, $50/year (individuals), $75/year (libraries). ISSN 1944-897X (paper) ISSN 1944-8988 (online) 3 Literary Journalism Studies 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 O. Dowling David Eason, Tobias Eberwein, Associate Editors Shelley Fisher Fishkin, Leonora Flis William Dow Kathy Roberts Forde, Brian Gabrial American University of Paris Susan Greenberg, Roberto Herrscher France Tim Holmes, Sue Joseph, Beate Josephi Richard Lance Keeble, Jacqueline Marino Miles Maguire Willa McDonald, Jenny McKay University of Wisconsin Isabelle Meuret, Lindsay Morton Oshkosh, United States Guillaume Pinson Josh Roiland Norman Sims, Isabel Soares Roberta S. Maguire Linda Steiner, Marie-Ève Thérenty University of Wisconsin Alice Donat Trindade, Doug Underwood Oshkosh, United States Julie Wheelwright, Jan Whitt Christopher P. Wilson Marcia R. 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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 6 Literary Journalism Studies, Vol. 11, No. 1, June 2019 Melchior Wańkowicz (Courtesy Dawid Walendowski, Wańkowicz’s great-grandson). 7 Literary Reportage or Journalistic Fiction? Polish Reporters’ Struggles with the Form Katarzyna Frukacz University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland Abstract: This study explores the national specificity of Polish literary re- portage and its historical changes from the second half of the nineteenth century to contemporary times. It analyzes selected examples of Poland’s literary journalism in the context of the interdependencies between journal- ism and fiction, fact-based and fictional prose, and, finally, the press and the book sector. In particular, the analysis highlights the role of sociopolitical factors in the evolution of Polish reporters’ writings and their professional ethics. Special emphasis is placed on literary devices derived from the al- legorical narrative strategy of the so-called “small realism,” which was often the only chance to pass censorship in Communist Poland. Moreover, the study examines the circumstances that have led to a symbiotic relation- ship between press and book forms of Polish reportage. It also discusses the aesthetics of the genre established along two separate lines: the journalistic variety and the literary variety (with the latter represented, among others, by Ryszard Kapuściński, the most recognizable Polish reporter worldwide). The genre of Polish reportage is further investigated, referring to two theo- retical visions of the reporting craft that have gained currency in post-war World War II Poland: Melchior Wańkowicz’s and Krzysztof Kąkolewski’s approaches. Wańkowicz’s concept, referred to as the mosaic theory, chal- lenged the canonical journalistic principle of keeping fact and fiction sepa- rate. In this study, the mosaic approach is discussed as a source of potential, though not obvious, similarities between the Polish and U.S. forms of liter- ary journalism. In addition, the study also touches on possible directions developing Polish reportage in the digital media age. Keywords: Polish literary reportage – journalistic fiction – mosaic theory – small realism – book reportage 8 Literary Journalism Studies, Vol. 11, No. 1, June 2019 n the late 1940s, Kazimierz Wyka, an eminent Polish literary critic, re- Imarked that reportage