The Plague Years - Reflecting on Pandemics (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Taylor & Francis
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	July 2022
First published:	2023
Editors:	Michael Titlestad • Karl van Wyk • Grace A. Musila
Dimensions:	246 x 174 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	270
ISBN-13:	978-1-03-228667-9
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General Books > Medicine > General issues > Public health & preventive medicine > Epidemiology & medical statistics
LSN:	1-03-228667-9
Barcode:	9781032286679

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