Literary Journalists Explore Death

David Swick is an associate professor of journalism at the University of King’s College, Canada. His work includes CBC Radio documentaries, CBC Radio foreign correspondence, almost 1,800 opinion articles and dozens of magazine articles. He has co-edited four anthologies, most recently the Routledge volume Literary Journalism Goes Inside Prison (2023).Richard Lance Keeble is Honorary Professor of Journalism at the University of Lincoln. The author and co-editor of more than 50 books, mainly on media-related issues, he is the joint editor of George Orwell Studies and emeritus editor of Ethical Space: The International Journal of Communication Ethics.

• Introduction: The Last Correspondents: Literary Journalists Bring Death to Life Part 1: Confronting Death and the Making of History 1. ‘They Can Never Die’ – Sacco, Vanzetti and Moa Martinson; 2. Writing on the Deaths of African Royals: How Sol T. Plaatje Applied Literary Journalism Techniques; 3. Considering the Deaths of Nonhumans: Inside Svetlana Alexievich’s ‘Voices of Utopia’ Cycle; 4. Epic Exceptionalism: History, Chronotope and The New York Times Obituary Part 2: How Literary Journalists Humanise the Dying 5. Literary Journalists on the Early HIV Epidemic in Canada; 6. Death as the Basis of Morality in Dannie Martin’s Prison Journalism; 7. The Grieving Writer: Intertextuality as Companionship in Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking; 8. Facing Death: Life-Threatening Illness in Memoir as Literary Journalism Part 3: War And the Pity of Dying 9. Rising From Gaza Ruins: Bearing Witness with Abū-Sayf; 10. Shared Grief, Divided Worlds: The Representation of Child Loss in The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict; 11. Struggle And Introspection: Three Journalists on Enduring War in Ukraine Part 4: Crafting Meaning from Death: International Perspectives 12. The Death Storytellers: When Narrative Journalists in Romania Reach Beyond Life; 13. Seeing The Dying with The ‘Gaze, Depth and Language of a Novelist’: Considering the Work of Susana Moreira Marques; 14. Truth To Power: Using Multi-Platform Literary Journalism to Investigate Racism and Death in Australia; 15. Ghosts Of the Tsunami: In Response to Catastrophic Loss, a Listening Literary Journalism; 16. A Post-Mortem Perspective on Oneself – The Gonzo Way; 17. Death Goes Digital: The Rebirth and Evolution of Literary Journalism Through Human-Focused Multimedia Storytelling; Afterword: Last Words,; Index