Pandemic protagonists : : viral (re)actions in pandemic and Corona fictions /

Pandemic protagonists : : viral (re)actions in pandemic and Corona fictions / / Yvonne Völkl, Julia Obermayr, Elisabeth Hobisch, editors.

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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...

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Superior document:Culture & theory
TeilnehmendeR:
Völkl, Yvonne,
Obermayr, Julia,
Hobisch, Elisabeth,
Place / Publishing House:Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag,, [2023]
©2023
Year of Publication:2023
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
French
Spanish
Italian
Series:Culture & theory.
Physical Description:1 online resource (308 pages) :; illustrations.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Pandemic Protagonists (Re)Claiming Agency: An Introduction
  • Bloody Investigations. Scientists as Ambiguous Pandemic Protagonists in the Dystopian Streaming Series La Valla and La Révolution
  • Corona Palimpsests: Pandemic Protagonists as Readers
  • Hysterical Men and Reasoning Women? On Gender Roles and Agency in Corona Fictions
  • 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
  • Mediated Vulnerabilities: Transforming Virginia Woolf’s Characters in Corona Fictions
  • ‘¿Te importa?’ Entre soledad y olvido: la representación de los ancianos en el teatro español durante la pandemia de COVID-19
  • Immunity and Community: The Role of Immune Protagonists in Saramago’s Ensaio sobre a Cegueira (1995) and Roth’s Nemesis (2010)
  • The Crowd as a Pandemic Character: Determinism, Entertainment and Transgression in Literature
  • ‘C’était quelqu’un de toute façon’ : les personnages humains et non humains dans le roman animaliste Les Métamorphoses de Camille Brunel
  • The Role of Animals in Pandemic Narratives: Forewarning Disaster, Causing Outbreaks, Conferring Immunity
  • Germs as Social Protagonists: (In)visible Enemies and the Fear of Epidemic Invasion in Classical Hollywood Cinema
  • Human-Viral Hybrids as Challenge to the Outbreak Narrative and Neo-Liberal Biopolitics
  • Protagonisti in cerca di una nuova agency: la pandemia di Covid-19 nella letteratura italiana
  • Corona Fictions Agents: Cinematic Representations of Hopeful Pandemic Protagonists in Early Corona Fictions
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