Corona perspectives: How does fiction narrate pandemics?

This piece includes comments from the authors of recent and forthcoming novels – Lauren Beukes, Lawrence Wright, Chris Bohjahlian – that deal with the ways contagion intersects with global hierarchies of socio-economic/ecological and gendered power. It also provides an overview history of such issues in key “plague” texts by – among others -- Defoe, Poe, King and Soderbergh.

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Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies monitors the Covid-19 pandemic

There is little doubt that the Covid-19 pandemic affects communities and nations across the world in different ways, and that the world’s poor are going to experience this crisis much more keenly than people belonging to affluent communities. As a postcolonial research centre, Linnaeus University Centre for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies will help monitor the development of the crisis. At the centre's web page above, you will find research and opinion pieces that highlight the dispersed and uneven impact of the crisis in Swedish and global society.

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