Bolivian Ghosts Exorcised Through Literary Journalism: Discussing First-Person Trauma Narrative

Joseph, S

Bolivian Ghosts Exorcised Through Literary Journalism: Discussing First-Person Trauma Narrative

Joseph, S

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Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Journalism Practice, 2019
Issue Date:: 2019-01-01

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Field	Value	Language
dc.contributor.author	Joseph, S https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4978-6633	en_US
dc.date.available	2021-04-06T19:02:14Z
dc.date.issued	2019-01-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Journalism Practice, 2019	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	1751-2786	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/137216
dc.description.abstract	© 2019, © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. IN 2001, a young Argentinian reporter organised a meeting with a union official named Casimiro Huanca, friend and advisor to Bolivian guerrilla leader Evo Morales. It would take the reporter 24 hours to get to their meeting place in Cochabamba, Central Bolivia, through the dangerous depths of the jungle. Reporting for Clarín, the largest newspaper in Buenos Aires at the time, reporter Pablo Calvi did not make it to the meet in Cochabamba. Huanca did and was gunned down on the spot. Calvi did not write the story in 2001. And for 16 years, barely spoke of it, haunted by the belief that he was responsible for this man's death. In 2016, he returned to Bolivia to find answers, publishing them in online magazine Guernica. Through narrative inquiry and textual analysis, this paper unpacks the story's trauma frame through characterisation and structure. It focuses on the subtle use of the first person, arguing that it is an exemplar of narrative placement. This paper discusses the setting of the piece of writing as a slice of trauma memoir in postgraduate and undergraduate creative nonfiction classes, in a bid to demonstrate judicious use of first-person narration.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Journalism Practice	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1080/17512786.2019.1691936	en_US
dc.title	Bolivian Ghosts Exorcised Through Literary Journalism: Discussing First-Person Trauma Narrative	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article
utslib.for	1903 Journalism and Professional Writing	en_US
utslib.for	2001 Communication and Media Studies	en_US
pubs.embargo.period	Not known	en_US
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences/Creative Writing Program
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Strength - CPCE - Centre for Creative Practices and the Cultural Economy
utslib.copyright.status	open_access
pubs.publication-status	Published	en_US

Abstract:

© 2019, © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. IN 2001, a young Argentinian reporter organised a meeting with a union official named Casimiro Huanca, friend and advisor to Bolivian guerrilla leader Evo Morales. It would take the reporter 24 hours to get to their meeting place in Cochabamba, Central Bolivia, through the dangerous depths of the jungle. Reporting for Clarín, the largest newspaper in Buenos Aires at the time, reporter Pablo Calvi did not make it to the meet in Cochabamba. Huanca did and was gunned down on the spot. Calvi did not write the story in 2001. And for 16 years, barely spoke of it, haunted by the belief that he was responsible for this man's death. In 2016, he returned to Bolivia to find answers, publishing them in online magazine Guernica. Through narrative inquiry and textual analysis, this paper unpacks the story's trauma frame through characterisation and structure. It focuses on the subtle use of the first person, arguing that it is an exemplar of narrative placement. This paper discusses the setting of the piece of writing as a slice of trauma memoir in postgraduate and undergraduate creative nonfiction classes, in a bid to demonstrate judicious use of first-person narration.

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