Pandemic Storytelling

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-51985-5
Verlag: World Bank Publications

Buch, Englisch, Band 3, 214 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 449 g

Reihe: Narratives and Mental Health

This volume offers unique, interdisciplinary perspectives by evaluating, analyzing, and interpreting how the past, the present, and potential futures may be affected by pandemic storytelling. The chapters analyze the interplay between various disciplines that explore COVID-19 narratives and study the influence of pandemics on storytelling.

The authors invite you to delve into the intricate social, cultural, and political dynamics between anthropocentric societies, human nature, and their implications for an understanding of our interactions with others and environments. Most importantly, this volume initiates insightful conversations, highlighting that in times of crisis the most valuable thing we can hold on to is human connection.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Alber, Jan

de Muijnck, Deborah

Jumpertz, Jessica

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Fragen & Probleme

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: What is Pandemic Storytelling?

Jan Alber, Deborah de Muijnck, and Jessica Jumpertz

PART 1: Pandemic Storytelling: Issues of Form and Structure

1 A Pandemic Chronicle: Harnessing Narrative Fusion

Rita Charon

2 Fiction, the Pandemic, and the Rhetorical Approach to Fictionality: Roddy Doyle’s Life without Children

James Phelan

PART 2: The Central Role of Experientiality in Crisis Narratives

3 Illness Trauma, Life-Writing, and Pandemic Storytelling

Hanna Meretoja

4 Crisis and Creativity: Poetry in Times of Corona

Jarmila Mildorf

PART 3: The Uncertainty and Unreliability of Stories about Corona

5 Certainty and Uncertainty in Pandemic Storytelling: Tales from the US, the UK, and Beyond

Molly Andrews and Mark Freeman

6 COVID-19 Knowledge, Transmedia Narratives, and the Poetics of Unreliability in Postdigital Environments

Monika Pietrzak-Franger

PART 4: Time, Temporalities, and the Process of Waiting

7 No Sense of an Ending: Narrating Pandemic Temporalities

Christoph Singer

8 Imaginary Places: Metamorphoses of the Familiar in Times of Crisis

Marina Grishakova

PART 5: Narratives as Projections of Possible Futures

9 Corona Narratives from the Anglophone World – Speculations about the Post-Pandemic Future

Birgit Neumann

10 Pandemic Stories as Crisis Narratives: Competing Narratives of the Corona Virus Pandemic as an Epistemological Crisis and a Crisis of Forms of Life

Ansgar Nünning and Vera Nünning

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jan Alber, Prof. (1973) is Professor of New English and American Literature at Justus Liebig University, Giessen and Past President of the ISSN. He is currently working with Alice Bell on a UKRI project on the processing of post-postmodernist fictions of the digital.

Deborah de Muijnck, Dr. phil. (1988) is a postdoctoral researcher at Justus-Liebig University. Formerly a researcher at RWTH Aachen University, she was also an Affiliate at Harvard University and a Research Fellow at Graz University. She has published on cognitive narratology, post-trauma autobiographical storytelling, and in the medical humanities.

Jessica Jumpertz, M.A. (1992) is a research and teaching assistant at RWTH Aachen University. She is currently completing her PhD thesis on the representation of highly intelligent female characters in nineteenth and twentieth century English literature.