Pandemic Narratives | ||
| مجلة کلية الآداب جامعة الفيوم | ||
| Article 31, Volume 17, Issue 2, July 2025, Pages 1081-1102 PDF (1.1 M) | ||
| Document Type: المقالة الأصلية | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/jfafu.2025.419068.2295 | ||
| Author | ||
| غدي حمدي* | ||
| کلية الآداب جامعة الفيوم | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Literature and pandemics are connected entities. Pandemics are a biological and a humanitarian crisis; thus, they are a subject of inspection for Humanities, Epidemiology, and Biology. Major outbreaks that illustrate different psychological effects include the following: Black Death, Russian flu, Spanish flu, the 1957 and the 1968 flu pandemics, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), swine flu, and the COVID-19 pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic has brought a fundamental change in our lives. It has given us the feeling that we are living in a dystopian world. The study of pandemic novels helps to document pandemics’ impact on psychological, social, cultural, and educational spheres in terms of people’s reactions, their different ways to manage their trauma and pain, and their methods of survival. The relationship between literature and medicine is considered a mode of Comparative Literature. Such theoretical framework explains the multi-dimensionality of the pandemic crisis and stresses the role of literature in penetrating the realities of viruses. Keywords: Comparative Literature, COVID-19, Dystopian Novel, Pandemics, Pandemic Novels. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Keywords: Comparative Literature; COVID-19; Dystopian Novel; Pandemics; Pandemic Novels | ||
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