An Ibero-American Perspective on Narratives of Pandemics (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Bora, Zélia M.; Ballesteros, Ricardo de la Fuente; Roy, Animesh

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. August 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781793654052
• Artikelnr.: 67973515

Autorenporträt

Edited by Zélia M. Bora; Animesh Roy and Ricardo de la Fuente Ballesteros - Contributions by Zélia M. Bora; Animesh Roy; Ricardo de la Fuente Ballesteros; Juan Pascual Gay; Mercedes Pascual Zavala; Juan R. Coca; Martha Galvan-Mandujano; María Fernanda Sol

Inhaltsangabe

Preface, by Zélia M. Bora, Animesh Roy, and Ricardo Ballesteros de la
Fuente
Introduction: Narratives of Pandemics: Literature and Culture-An
Iberoamerican Perspective, by Zélia M. Bora, Animesh Roy, and Ricardo
Ballesteros de la Fuente
Part I
Chapter 1. Tuberculosis and Melancholy in the Work of Gustavo Adolfo
Bécquer, by Juan Pascual Gay and Mercedes Pascual Zavala
Chapter 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. Coca
Chapter 3. The Language of a Sick Nation: Epidemics and Environmental
Destruction in the Narratives of Lima Barreto, by Zélia M. Bora
Part II
Chapter 4. Guatemalan Expressions: Memorials and Private Reflective Spaces
during the Internal Conflict and Covid-19 Pandemic, by Martha C.
Galván-Mandujano
Chapter 5. Between Life and Death: Practices of Healing of the Ecuadorian
Siona Nationality as a Political Spirituality, by María Fernanda Solórzano
Granada
Chapter 6. Now That We Are Back to School...Pandemic, Environment, and
Community Links, by Norma Georgina Gutiérrez Serrano
Chapter 7. Chronicle of Life during Covid-19 Pandemic in Mexico, by
Georgina Vega Fregoso
Chapter 8. Afro-Brazilians and Covid-19: Revisiting the Concepts
Necropolitics and Genocide, by Siddharth Monteiro Bora and Evely Libanori
Chapter 9. Language and Pandemics: Uses and Effects of Whatsapp-Students
and Teacher under Isolation, by Juarez Nogueira Lins
Chapter 10. The Covid-19 Pandemic and Agency for a New Environmental Ethic,
by Maria Geralda de Miranda and Bruno Matos de Farias
Chapter 11. Biopolitics and Environmental Governance in Time of the New
Coronavirus Pandemic, by Marcus Alexandre Cavalcanti and Katia Eilane
Santos Avelar