Pandemic Protagonists. Viral (Re)Actions in Pandemic and Corona Fictions (Sammelband)
Allgemeine Angaben
Herausgeber
Elisabeth Hobisch, Julia Obermayr, Yvonne Völkl- Verlag
- transcript
- Stadt
- Bielefeld
- Publikationsdatum
- 2023
- Weiterführender Link
- www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-6616-8
- Art der Publikation
- 978-3-8376-6616-8, doi: 10.14361/9783839466162, 978-3-8394-6616-2 'Open Access'
- Thematik nach Sprachen
- Sprachübergreifend
- Disziplin(en)
- Literaturwissenschaft, Medien-/Kulturwissenschaft
- Schlagwörter
- Film, Cultural Studies, Culture, Media, Literature, Covid-19, Pandemic, Fiction, Literary Studies
Exposé
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.
Inhalt
Acknowledgements | 7
Pandemic Protagonists (Re)Claiming Agency: An Introduction
Yvonne Völkl, Julia Obermayr, Elisabeth Hobisch | 9
Bloody Investigations. Scientists as Ambiguous Pandemic Protagonists in the Dystopian Streaming Series La Valla and La Révolution
Anna Isabell Wörsdörfer | 23
Corona Palimpsests: Pandemic Protagonists as Readers
Martina Stemberger | 41
Hysterical Men and Reasoning Women? On Gender Roles and Agency in Corona Fictions
Elisabeth Hobisch | 65
La novela de la pandemia como una modalidad de la novela de la crisis. El caso de La madre del futbolista de Pablo García Casado
Justyna Ziarkowska | 87
Mediated Vulnerabilities: Transforming Virginia Woolf’s Characters in Corona Fictions
Paulina Pająk | 99
‘¿Te importa?’ Entre soledad y olvido: la representación de los ancianos en el teatro español durante la pandemia de COVID-19
Luana Bermúdez | 117
Immunity and Community: The Role of Immune Protagonists in Saramago’s Ensaio sobre a Cegueira (1995) and Roth’s Nemesis (2010)
Louis Mühlethaler | 137
The Crowd as a Pandemic Character: Determinism, Entertainment and Transgression in Literature
Aureo Lustosa Guerios | 157
‘C’était quelqu’un de toute façon’ : les personnages humains et non humains dans le roman animaliste Les Métamorphoses de Camille Brunel
Fleur Hopkins-Loféron | 179
The Role of Animals in Pandemic Narratives: Forewarning Disaster, Causing Outbreaks, Conferring Immunity
Ana Carolina Torquato, Aureo Lustosa Guerios | 199
Germs as Social Protagonists: (In)visible Enemies and the Fear of Epidemic Invasion in Classical Hollywood Cinema
Claire Demoulin | 223
Human-Viral Hybrids as Challenge to the Outbreak Narrative and Neo-Liberal Biopolitics
Małgorzata Sugiera | 239
Protagonisti in cerca di una nuova agency: la pandemia di Covid-19 nella letteratura italiana
Tommaso Meozzi | 257
Corona Fictions Agents: Cinematic Representations of Hopeful Pandemic Protagonists in Early Corona Fictions
Julia Obermayr | 277
Authors | 303
Verbundene Meldungen
- 26. Mai 2023, 17:39 Uhr: Conference "Pandemic Protagonists: Viral (Re)Actions in Pandemic and Corona Fictions"
- 21. März 2022, 16:53 Uhr: CfA: Pandemic Protagonists – Viral (Re)Actions in Pandemic and Corona Fictions
Anmerkungen
The edited volume forms part of the Corona Fictions project (www.tugraz.at/projekte/cofi) funded by the Austrian Science Fund ([FWF]: P 34571-G) and marks the culmination of a year of joint work. Once again, we would like to express our gratitude to everyone involved in the book project!
- Ersteller des Eintrags
- Yvonne Völkl
- Erstellungsdatum
- Freitag, 16. Juni 2023, 11:15 Uhr
- Letzte Änderung
- Sonntag, 18. Juni 2023, 22:51 Uhr