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.
Pandemic Protagonists (Re)Claiming Agency: An IntroductionSeiten 9 - 22 Elisabeth Hobisch Download Kapitel (PDF)
Bloody Investigations. Scientists as Ambiguous Pandemic Protagonists in the Dystopian Streaming Series La Valla and La RévolutionSeiten 23 - 40 Anna Isabell Wörsdörfer Download Kapitel (PDF)
Corona Palimpsests: Pandemic Protagonists as ReadersSeiten 41 - 64 Martina Stemberger Download Kapitel (PDF)
Hysterical Men and Reasoning Women? On Gender Roles and Agency in Corona FictionsSeiten 65 - 86 Elisabeth Hobisch Download Kapitel (PDF)
La novela de la pandemia como una modalidad de la novela de la crisis. El caso de La madre del futbolista de Pablo García CasadoSeiten 87 - 98 Anna Isabell Wörsdörfer, Paulina Pajak, Claire Demoulin, Fleur Hopkins-Loféron Download Kapitel (PDF)
Mediated Vulnerabilities: Transforming Virginia Woolf''s Characters in Corona FictionsSeiten 99 - 116 Paulina Pajak Download Kapitel (PDF)
''¿Te importa?'' Entre soledad y olvido: la representación de los ancianos en el teatro español durante la pandemia de COVID-19Seiten 117 - 136 Anna Isabell Wörsdörfer, Paulina Pajak, Claire Demoulin, Fleur Hopkins-Loféron Download Kapitel (PDF)
Immunity and Community: The Role of Immune Protagonists in Saramago''s Ensaio sobre a Cegueira (1995) and Roth''s Nemesis (2010)Seiten 137 - 156 Anna Isabell Wörsdörfer, Paulina Pajak, Claire Demoulin, Fleur Hopkins-Loféron Download Kapitel (PDF)
The Crowd as a Pandemic Character: Determinism, Entertainment and Transgression in LiteratureSeiten 157 - 178 Anna Isabell Wörsdörfer, Paulina Pajak, Claire Demoulin, Fleur Hopkins-Loféron Download Kapitel (PDF)
''C''était quelqu''un de toute façon'' : les personnages humains et non humains dans le roman animaliste Les Métamorphoses de Camille BrunelSeiten 179 - 198 Fleur Hopkins-Loféron Download Kapitel (PDF)
The Role of Animals in Pandemic Narratives: Forewarning Disaster, Causing Outbreaks, Conferring ImmunitySeiten 199 - 222 Anna Isabell Wörsdörfer, Paulina Pajak, Claire Demoulin, Fleur Hopkins-Loféron Download Kapitel (PDF)
Germs as Social Protagonists: (In)visible Enemies and the Fear of Epidemic Invasion in Classical Hollywood CinemaSeiten 223 - 238 Claire Demoulin Download Kapitel (PDF)
Human-Viral Hybrids as Challenge to the Outbreak Narrative and Neo-Liberal BiopoliticsSeiten 239 - 256 Malgorzata Sugiera Download Kapitel (PDF)
Protagonisti in cerca di una nuova agency: la pandemia di Covid-19 nella letteratura italianaSeiten 257 - 276 Anna Isabell Wörsdörfer, Paulina Pajak, Claire Demoulin, Fleur Hopkins-Loféron Download Kapitel (PDF)
Corona Fictions Agents: Cinematic Representations of Hopeful Pandemic Protagonists in Early Corona FictionsSeiten 277 - 302 Anna Isabell Wörsdörfer, Paulina Pajak, Claire Demoulin, Fleur Hopkins-Loféron Download Kapitel (PDF)
