Journal Article

New Directions in Contemporary American Nonfiction /Çagdas Amerikan Kurmaca-Disi Yazininda Yeni Yönelimler

Özcan, Isil

2014

Overview

This study explores contemporary American nonfiction's relationship to the twentieth century journalistic phenomenon of muckraking and to the more recent New New Journalism through a discussion of the acclaimed American novelist Nicholson Baker's selected works of nonfiction. Baker's nonfiction demonstrates serious and in-depth research, and in his refined, innovative treatment, investigative writing yields a narrative that is at once storytelling and ethical reflection as well as an expression of serious social, cultural, and political problems. This study contends that Baker inherits a commitment to the artistry of journalistic investigation and that he redefines the art of nonfiction through his subjective and ethical journalism that is conveyed through a refreshing literary reportage.

• Publisher: Eskisehir Osmangazi University
• Subject: 20th century / American literature / Baker, Nicholson / Ethics / Journalism / Nonfiction / Scholarship / Social problems / Storytelling / Subjectivity / Writers