Nonfiction’s rhetorical versatility is neglected relative to fiction’s prestige

Evidence

Yet a tenacious tendency remains to marginalize nonfiction, to treat it as at best supplementary to “real literature” like the novel or poetry rather than taking seriously its adaptive rhetorical capacities, the chameleon powers that make it such an indispensable resource for creative activism. Indeed, a particular joy of teaching transnational environmental literatures is the vigorous, varied writing on offer from within nonfiction’s broad domain—memoirs, essays, public science writing, polemics, travel literature, graphic memoirs, manifestos, and investigative journalism. — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 72

Categorization

• XREF: Directly serves the literature strand of the eco-justice polyad — a defense of nonfiction as a vehicle for activist visibility. — connects to: Literary criticism is structurally unequipped for oral-performative texts — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Nations, Classes, Literatures, 500

Broader Connections

• Literary criticism is structurally unequipped for oral-performative texts #exemplifies (0.80) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 500