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'Until It Suddenly Isn’t': Two Novels on Life after a Pandemic Disaster

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العنوان: 'Until It Suddenly Isn’t': Two Novels on Life after a Pandemic Disaster
المؤلفون: Åsa Nilsson Skåve
المصدر: Humanities, Vol 13, Iss 2, p 60 (2024)
بيانات النشر: MDPI AG, 2024.
سنة النشر: 2024
المجموعة: LCC:History of scholarship and learning. The humanities
مصطلحات موضوعية: pandemics, environmental crisis, Severance, Under the Blue, posthumanism, ecocriticism, History of scholarship and learning. The humanities, AZ20-999
الوصف: This article investigates two recent novels that deal with environmental and pandemic disasters: Severance (2018) by Ling Ma and Under the Blue (2022) by Oana Aristide. The analysis is based on ecocritical and posthumanist perspectives and on a division made by Chakrabarty (Planetary Crises and the Difficulty of Being Modern), in two different understandings of the globe: one connected to the planetary-focused discourse on global warming and the other on human-centered globalization. The clashes of these discourses are highlighted in the novels. They illustrate a process of understanding that humans are not separate from the natural world, through the disease itself and through the sudden need to survive without modern healthcare and all the comfort we are used to being able to buy. The gradual insight of the depicted characters, and perhaps also the readers of the novels, is that we live on a planet of extreme complexity and interdependence.
نوع الوثيقة: article
وصف الملف: electronic resource
اللغة: English
تدمد: 2076-0787
Relation: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/13/2/60; https://doaj.org/toc/2076-0787
DOI: 10.3390/h13020060
URL الوصول: https://doaj.org/article/2c9d9b28cdc54655bad4c837036bff16
رقم الانضمام: edsdoj.2c9d9b28cdc54655bad4c837036bff16
قاعدة البيانات: Directory of Open Access Journals
الوصف
تدمد:20760787
DOI:10.3390/h13020060