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Ibero-American Perspective on Narratives of Pandemics

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

AvZélia M. Bora,Animesh Roy,Ricardo de la Fuente Ballesteros

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An Ibero-American Perspective on Narratives of Pandemics is a critique of the realities of the pandemic in the Ibero-American world and its intertwined relationship with the environment. Through a critical gaze into the history of the region as it has evolved through periods of socio-environmental and cultural conflicts, the book chronicles multiple experiences of how people managed to negotiate multiple crises on a daily basis by often clinging to their age old cultural and healing practices, as well as the humanistic representation of such experiences in various fictional and nonfictional writings. The contributors expose the biopolitics around COVID-19 and its effects particularly on marginalised populations and the environment in an effort to consider the complexity of the pandemic in its multiple dimensions. They evaluate it through climatic, socioeconomic, political, scientific, and cultural lenses that they argue shaped the realities of the pandemic. They also take a close look at the use and effects of language in virtual spaces, implying it has the ability to construct/mis-construct reality in this postmodern world, arguing there is a need for a new environmental ethic post-pandemic.

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Utgivningsdatum2023-08-08
Mått159 x 237 x 23 mm
Vikt553 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieEcocritical Theory and Practice
Antal sidor236
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781793654045

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Preface, by Zélia M. Bora, Animesh Roy, and Ricardo Ballesteros de la FuenteIntroduction: Narratives of Pandemics: Literature and Culture—An Iberoamerican Perspective, by Zélia M. Bora, Animesh Roy, and Ricardo Ballesteros de la FuentePart IChapter 1. Tuberculosis and Melancholy in the Work of Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, by Juan Pascual Gay and Mercedes Pascual ZavalaChapter 2. The Turn of the Century and the Spanish Imaginary Facing the Disease: The Case of Ganivet, by Ricardo Ballesteros de la Fuente and Juan R. CocaChapter 3. The Language of a Sick Nation: Epidemics and Environmental Destruction in the Narratives of Lima Barreto, by Zélia M. BoraPart IIChapter 4. Guatemalan Expressions: Memorials and Private Reflective Spaces during the Internal Conflict and Covid-19 Pandemic, by Martha C. Galván-MandujanoChapter 5. Between Life and Death: Practices of Healing of the Ecuadorian Siona Nationality as a Political Spirituality, by María Fernanda Solórzano GranadaChapter 6. Now That We Are Back to School…Pandemic, Environment, and Community Links, by Norma Georgina Gutiérrez SerranoChapter 7. Chronicle of Life during Covid-19 Pandemic in Mexico, by Georgina Vega FregosoChapter 8. Afro-Brazilians and Covid-19: Revisiting the Concepts Necropolitics and Genocide, by Siddharth Monteiro Bora and Evely LibanoriChapter 9. Language and Pandemics: Uses and Effects of Whatsapp—Students and Teacher under Isolation, by Juarez Nogueira LinsChapter 10. The Covid-19 Pandemic and Agency for a New Environmental Ethic, by Maria Geralda de Miranda and Bruno Matos de FariasChapter 11. Biopolitics and Environmental Governance in Time of the New Coronavirus Pandemic, by Marcus Alexandre Cavalcanti and Katia Eilane Santos Avelar

Narratives of Pandemics is a timely volume which provides a valuable lens to understand the role of literature and culture and explore the impact of human actions on the environment by looking at the interrelationship between pandemics, environment and literature in the Ibero-American region. Narratives of Pandemics is a must-read for anyone curious to explore how the experience of pandemics have been represented through Latin-American literature and its culture, one deeply attached to the natural world. This carefully edited collection brings together narratives that question the impact of human actions on the environment and looks at how pandemics are related to environmental destruction.