scholarly journals Transnational Journalism History: Expanding Boundaries

2021 ◽  
Vol 24 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Frank Harbers ◽  
Marcel Broersma
Keyword(s):  
Journalism History

The Literature of Women in Journalism History: A Supplement

1976 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 116-120
Author(s):  
Marion Marzolf ◽  
Nancy Bock
Keyword(s):  
Journalism History

The Literature of Women in Journalism History

1974 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 117-128
Author(s):  
Marion Marzolf ◽  
Ramona R. Rush ◽  
Darlene Stern
Keyword(s):  
Journalism History

Books: Watergate's Place in Journalism History

1974 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 54-55
Author(s):  
Michael Emery ◽  
Stuart W. Showalter
Keyword(s):  
Journalism History

The Variety of Journalism History

2001 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 141-146
Author(s):  
Barbara Cloud
Keyword(s):  
Journalism History

Unidentified narrative objects: Approaching instant history through experiments with literary journalism in Beppe Sebaste’s H. P. Lady Diana’s Last Driver and Frédéric Beigbeder’s Windows on the World

Journalism ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (7) ◽  
pp. 1007-1022
Author(s):  
Kate Willman
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Detective Fiction ◽  
World Trade Center ◽  
Literary Journalism ◽  
Journalism History ◽  
Global Issues ◽  
Car Crash ◽  
French Writer ◽  
The World ◽  
Trade Center

The subjects of the two texts analysed in this article are two highly significant recent historical events: the death of Lady Diana in a car crash after being chased by paparazzi on 31 August 1997 and the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City on 11 September 2001, which are addressed by the Italian writer Beppe Sebaste and the French writer Frédéric Beigbeder, respectively. An analysis of each text shows that they not only examine the events in question through reportage, but they are also strongly personal and subjective. Both texts also put forward literary writers to help ‘read’ extensively mediated events, provoking reflection on how news travels and is mediated in increasingly immediate ways in today’s world, while also harking back to New Journalism. They could be called ‘unidentified narrative objects’, a label I borrow from the Italian writer Roberto Bui, alias Wu Ming 1, who has applied it to a corpus of recent Italian texts (including that of Sebaste), that combine modes of writing – such as journalism, history, detective fiction and life-writing – often blurring the boundaries between fiction and nonfiction, in order to more effectively draw their readers’ attention to the national and global issues they address. Here, I extend the term unidentified narrative objects beyond Italy’s borders to the work of Beigbeder and others, suggesting that such hybridity is connected to how we process the world around us today and a new iteration of literary journalism.

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