Pandemic Protagonists: Viral (Re)Actions In Pandemic And Corona Fictions (Culture & Theory)

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.

• | Author: Yvonne Volkl, Julia Obermayr, Elisabeth Hobisch
• | Publisher: Transcript Publishing
• | Publication Date: Jun 27, 2023
• | Number of Pages: 308 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 3837666166
• | ISBN-13: 9783837666168