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Pandemic Protagonists: Viral (Re)Actions in Pandemic and Corona Fictions
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Abstract During the first mandatory lockdowns of the Covid-19 pandemic, citizens worldwide turned to "pandemic fictions" or started to produce their own »Corona Fictions« across different media. These accounts of (previously) experienced or imagined health crises feature a great variety of protagonists and t... view more
During the first mandatory lockdowns of the Covid-19 pandemic, citizens worldwide turned to "pandemic fictions" or started to produce their own »Corona Fictions« across different media. These accounts of (previously) experienced or imagined health crises feature a great variety of protagonists and their (re)actions in response to the exceptional circumstances. The contributors to this volume take a closer look at different pandemic protagonists in fictional narratives relating to the Covid-19 pandemic as well as in existing pandemic fictions. Thereby they provide new insights into pandemic narratives from a cultural, literary, and media studies perspective from antiquity to today.... view less
Classification
Science of Literature, Linguistics
Free Keywords
Fiction; Culture; Media; Covid-19; Pandemic; Literature; Film; Medicine; Literary Studies; Cultural Studies
Document language
English
Publication Year
2023
Publisher
transcript Verlag
City
Bielefeld
Page/Pages
306 p.
Series
Culture & Theory, 284
DOI
https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839466162
ISBN
978-3-8394-6616-2
Status
Published Version; reviewed