Pandemic Protagonists : Viral (Re)Actions in Pandemic and Corona Fictions /

Pandemic Protagonists : Viral (Re)Actions in Pandemic and Corona Fictions / ed. by Yvonne Völkl, Julia Obermayr, Elisabeth Hobisch.

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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Online Access: Full Text (via EBSCO)
Other Authors: Bermúdez, Luana (Contributor), Carolina Torquato, Ana (Contributor), Demoulin, Claire (Contributor), Hobisch, Elisabeth (Contributor, Editor), Hopkins-Loféron, Fleur (Contributor), Lustosa Guerios, Aureo (Contributor), Meozzi, Meozzi (Contributor), Mühlethaler, Louis (Contributor), Obermayr, Julia (Contributor, Editor), Pająk, Paulina (Contributor), Stemberger, Martina (Contributor), Sugiera, Małgorzata (Contributor), Völkl, Yvonne (Contributor, Editor), Wörsdörfer, Anna Isabell (Contributor), Ziarkowska, Justyna (Contributor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, [2023]
Series:Edition Kulturwissenschaft ; 284
Subjects:
Epidemics in motion pictures.
Epidemics in motion pictures
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
  • Authors

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