Prerequisites for Contemporary Literary Journalism in the Middle East
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| Year of publication | 2018 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | Literary journalism – a genre of nonfiction prose that lies at the conceptual intersection of literature and journalism – can be the best vehicle to tell certain kinds of stories, ones that foreground the processes of individual, sociocultural and/or political transformation. These are the narratives that call for in-depth reporting, the use of literary techniques and a clear authorial point of view. And since one of the markers of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries is the accelerating pace of geopolitical change, literary journalism is well positioned to provide the necessary insight and political commentary to explain and comprehend these changes. Inspired by political events at the upcoming venue – with the demise of the AustroHungarian Empire after World War I, the namesake of the ESSE host university, Tomas Masaryk, became the founding father of Czechoslovakia, and the host city Brno later became an important focus for the Velvet Revolution – the proposed roundtable session will focus on the nature of social change in all its forms. |
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