Literary Journalists Explore Death

Introduction: The Last Correspondents: Literary Journalists Bring Death to Life, David Swick and Richard Lance Keeble Part 1: Confronting Death and the Making of History 1. ‘They Can Never Die’ – Sacco, Vanzetti and Moa Martinson, Anna Hoyles; 2. Writing on the Deaths of African Royals: How Sol T. Plaatje Applied Literary Journalism Techniques, Lesley Mofokeng; 3. Considering the Deaths of Nonhumans: Inside Svetlana Alexievich’s ‘Voices of Utopia’ Cycle, Arthur Breccio Marchetto and Mateus Yuri Passos; 4. Epic Exceptionalism: History, Chronotope and The New York Times Obituary, Rob Alexander Part 2: How Literary Journalists Humanise the Dying 5. Literary Journalists on the Early HIV Epidemic in Canada, Bruce Gillespie; 6. Death as the Basis of Morality in Dannie Martin’s Prison Journalism, Brian P. Conniff; 7. The Grieving Writer: Intertextuality as Companionship in Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking, Marta Soares; 8. Facing Death: Life-Threatening Illness in Memoir as Literary Journalism, Willa McDonald Part 3: War And the Pity of Dying 9. Rising From Gaza Ruins: Bearing Witness with Abū-Sayf, Hania Nashef; 10. Shared Grief, Divided Worlds: The Representation of Child Loss in The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Lindsay Morton Hayasaka; 11. Struggle And Introspection: Three Journalists on Enduring War in Ukraine, Manuel Carvalho Coutinho Part 4: Crafting Meaning from Death: International Perspectives 12. The Death Storytellers: When Narrative Journalists in Romania Reach Beyond Life, Marius-Adrian Hazaparu; 13. Seeing The Dying with The ‘Gaze, Depth and Language of a Novelist’: Considering the Work of Susana Moreira Marques, Raquel Baltazar, Rita Amorin and Alice Trindade; 14. Truth To Power: Using Multi-Platform Literary Journalism to Investigate Racism and Death in Australia, Sue Joseph; 15. Ghosts Of the Tsunami: In Response to Catastrophic Loss, a Listening Literary Journalism, Anthea Garman; 16. A Post-Mortem Perspective on Oneself – The Gonzo Way, Christine Isager; 17. Death Goes Digital: The Rebirth and Evolution of Literary Journalism Through Human-Focused Multimedia Storytelling, Jaron Murphy; Afterword: Last Words, Jeffrey C. Neely; Index

Biography

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.