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The Plague Years - Reflecting on Pandemics (Hardcover)
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The Plague Years - Reflecting on Pandemics (Hardcover)
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The Plague Years collects scholarly and essayistic reflections on
literary, visual, and sonic representations of the COVID-19 and
other pandemics. These are placed alongside poetry and short
fiction written in the first two years of quarantine or isolation.
This range expresses the intellectual and imaginative struggle and
ingenuity entailed in coming to terms with the rampant spread of
disease and its emotional, cultural, and political consequences.
The contributions are from diverse contexts: Africa (from Egypt to
South Africa), China, Japan, the US, and Scandinavia. They consider
some of the array of contemporary engagements: poems translated
from Mandarin about the traumas of the frontline, Chinese
calligraphic poetry printed on cartons of PPE, comments on the
literary history of representing epidemics and pandemics, political
analyses of the post-truth present, and the role of life-writing
and gaming in an interrupted world. Given the generative and
creative obliquity of many of its parts, this collection shifts how
one thinks about the diseased present and the archival pasts on
which it draws. The chapters in this book were originally published
as a special issue of English Studies in Africa.
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