World Literature in the Times of Pandemics and Plagues
A special issue of Humanities (ISSN 2076-0787).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 January 2024) | Viewed by 3419
Special Issue Editors
Interests: children’s and Y/A literature; Astrid Lindgren studies; creative writing; science fiction; critical future studies
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Against all odds, the Covid-19 outbreak that caused the global pandemic at the beginning of 2020 spurred new hopes for an altered future. The shutdown of the world prompted technological solutions for better distance communication, hopes for global solidarity, hopes for solving the climate crisis, and new ways of thinking of communities. In summer 2022, we have returned to status quo and the pandemic has revealed global injustices, the most glaringly obvious one being the unequal vaccine distribution.
In this special issue of Humanities, we would like to invite contributions dealing with post-pandemic futures in speculative fiction, especially in World literature, opening up for alternative futures challenging the present condition. We also encourage submissions that investigate representations of societal changes in literature, concerning pandemics pre-Covid-19, pandemics during the Covid-19 outbreak, pandemics and ecocriticism (including animal studies), and the fear of new pandemics. Other topics of interest are: how the pandemic has affected our reading habits; How do we teach about pandemic literature, and do we have to rethink pedagogics concerning pandemic fiction? Finally, how has Covid-19 affected and influenced children’s and Y/A literature? How has creative writing been affected by the pandemic?
Prof. Dr. Helene Ehriander
Dr. Michael Godhe
Guest Editors
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