Winifred Black/Annie Laurie and the Making of Modern Nonfiction

Katherine H. Adams, Michael L. Keene (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

216 Seiten

2015
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4766-6296-1 (ISBN)

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Winifred Black worked in journalism from 1888 to 1936, often writing under the pseudonym Annie Laurie. Her work appeared in the Hearst papers--especially the San Francisco Examiner--and in fifty additional newspapers weekly through syndication. Black wrote 10,000 short pieces, as well as three books, a nonfiction oeuvre that combined quasi-autobiographical details with characters and scenes to provide cultural analysis for a nationwide audience. She wrote about the realities facing modern women--their work, their marriages and divorces, the violence they endured, their need for independence.

Contemporary praise for Black named her "the world's most famous feature writer" and "one of the world's most successful reporters," while her critics affixed the pejorative labels "stunt girl" and "sob sister." This study covers her influential career and gives the first serious attention to her journalism and nonfiction.

Katherine H. Adams is a professor emerita of the Department of English at Loyola University New Orleans.. The late Michael L. Keene was a professor emeritus of English at the University of Tennessee Knoxville.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. The War Hero/The War Criminal: Winifred Black’s Father

2. Ada Sweet—Role Model

3. The Power of Black’s Personal History in Building a Journalism Career

4. Initiating a Career in Nonfiction: What a “Stunt Girl” Could Do

5. Building a Reputation Among Newspaper Kings

6. Black’s View of the Writing World That She Entered

7. A Complex Persona

8. An Array of Nonfiction Techniques

9. Black’s Subject Matter: The Changing Definition of “Normal”

10. Gender Distinctions

11. Prejudice Against the Other: Concerning Race, Sexual Preference and the Women Who Aren’t Like Us

12. Independence and Dependence/Parents and Children

13. Working Women

14. The Power of Beauty

15. Dating, Domestic Violence and Marriage

16. Feminism and Suffrage: Women as Citizens

Conclusion: In Short

Chapter Notes

Bibliography

Index

Zusatzinfo	notes, bibliography, index
Verlagsort	Jefferson, NC
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	295 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Journalistik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-4766-6296-7 / 1476662967
ISBN-13	978-1-4766-6296-1 / 9781476662961
Zustand	Neuware