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World Literature in and for Pandemic Times
Series: - Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature, Volume: 110
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Exploring the emotional and political ramifications of pandemics worldwide, the contributors to this collection treat material from wisdom literature and philosophy to historical fiction, poetry, graphic novels, and hypertexts, and they discuss works from Argentina, Australia, Canada, China, Cuba, Ecuador, Egypt, England, France, Germany, Guatemala, India, Italy, Mexico, Portugal, Turkey, and the United States. Even now that the Covid-19 pandemic has been brought under some degree of control, the lessons—and the wounds—of this traumatic time will long be with us. As we prepare for the inevitable appearance of the next pandemic, world literature can help us create solidarity and collective connection in the years ahead.
David Damrosch is Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University and the founding director of Harvard’s Institute for World Literature. His books include What Is World Literature?, Comparing the Literatures: Literary Studies in a Global Age, and Around the World in 80 Books.
Notes on Contributors
1 Introduction
David Damrosch
2 Nights of Plague: A Conversation
Orhan Pamuk, David Damrosch and Delia Ungureanu
3 The Pilgrim Ship Mutiny: A Draft Chapter from Nights of Plague
Orhan Pamuk
4 “Much Worse than the Plague”: Magical Medicine and the Faust Tradition
Dustin Lovett
5 Contagion and Confinement: Re-Reading Michel Foucault alongside José Saramago and Daniel Defoe
Nathanael Pree
6 The Ethics of Witnessing in Pandemic Times: A Tandem Reading of José Saramago’s Blindness and Orhan Pamuk’s The White Castle
Deniz Gündoğan İbrişim
7 Containing Epidemics through Metaphor: Two Graphic Accounts
Danielle Terceiro
8 Making and Reading World Literature in a Pandemic: Global Logistics in Ling Ma’s Severance
Anna Muenchrath
9 Microcuento: A Brief Latin American Genre in and for Pandemic Times
Luis Medina Cordova
10 (World) Literature as Ars Vivendi through Collaborative Authorship: The Case of Escape Goat
Javid Aliyev
11 The World Poetics of Lockdown in Pandemic Poetry
Anhiti Patnaik
12 Opposite Directions: How the Pandemic Fuels Nationalism and Universalism
Mads Rosendahl Thomsen
13 The Value of Solitude
Delia Ungureanu
Index
1 Introduction
David Damrosch
2 Nights of Plague: A Conversation
Orhan Pamuk, David Damrosch and Delia Ungureanu
3 The Pilgrim Ship Mutiny: A Draft Chapter from Nights of Plague
Orhan Pamuk
4 “Much Worse than the Plague”: Magical Medicine and the Faust Tradition
Dustin Lovett
5 Contagion and Confinement: Re-Reading Michel Foucault alongside José Saramago and Daniel Defoe
Nathanael Pree
6 The Ethics of Witnessing in Pandemic Times: A Tandem Reading of José Saramago’s Blindness and Orhan Pamuk’s The White Castle
Deniz Gündoğan İbrişim
7 Containing Epidemics through Metaphor: Two Graphic Accounts
Danielle Terceiro
8 Making and Reading World Literature in a Pandemic: Global Logistics in Ling Ma’s Severance
Anna Muenchrath
9 Microcuento: A Brief Latin American Genre in and for Pandemic Times
Luis Medina Cordova
10 (World) Literature as Ars Vivendi through Collaborative Authorship: The Case of Escape Goat
Javid Aliyev
11 The World Poetics of Lockdown in Pandemic Poetry
Anhiti Patnaik
12 Opposite Directions: How the Pandemic Fuels Nationalism and Universalism
Mads Rosendahl Thomsen
13 The Value of Solitude
Delia Ungureanu
Index
Scholars and students of comparative and world literature and of medical humanities, as well as academic libraries.