Çağdaş Amerikan Kurmaca-Dışı Yazınında Yeni Yönelimler

Bu çalışma çağdaş Amerikan romancısı Nicholson Baker’ın kurmaca-dışı eserlerinden bir seçkiyi inceleyerek çağdaş Amerikan kurmaca-dışı yazını ile yirminci yüzyıl araştırmacı gazeteciliği ve son dönem Yeni Yeni Gazetecilik akımları arasında bir bağlantı kurmaya çalışır. Baker’ın eserlerinde gözlemlenen derinlemesine inceleme ve sofistike yaklaşım sayesinde araştırmacı yazarlık, önemli sosyal, kültürel ve politik sorunların irdelenmesinin yanı sıra, hikaye anlatıcılığı ve etik düşünmenin bir araya gelmesi ile yenilenmiş olur. Bu açıdan değerlendirildiğinde, Baker’ın araştırmacı yazarlığı bir sanat biçimi olarak miras aldığı öne sürülebilir ve yazarın sunduğu yenilikçi anlatı biçimi ile kurmaca-dışı yazınının öznel ve etik araştırmacılık bakımlarından yeniden tanımlandığı sonucuna ulaşılabilir

New Directions in Contemporary American Nonfiction

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
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