This article analyzes Arthur Rundt’s and Egon Erwin Kisch’s social reportages on Afro-America as journalistic-literary interventions into the dominant interwar representations of the U. S. Taking a narratological approach to the reportage, it argues that both texts, by positioning themselves in relation to two audiences, deploy interventionist narrative strategies – such as experientialization and gaze (re)direction – to render the systemic and historical nature of African American oppression perceptible to a
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