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An Ibero-American Perspective on Narratives of Pandemics

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 Solórzano Granada; Norma Georgina Gutiérrez Serrano; Georgina Vega Fregoso; Siddharth Singh Monteiro Bora; Evely Vânia Libanori; Juarez Nogueira Lins; Geralda de Miranda; Bruno Matos Farias; Marcos Alexandre Cavalcanti and Katia Eliane Santos Avelar

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.

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Lexington Books
Pages: 236 • Trim: 6¼ x 9½
978-1-7936-5404-5 • Hardback • August 2023 • $100.00 • (£77.00)
978-1-7936-5405-2 • eBook • August 2023 • $45.00 • (£35.00)
Series: Ecocritical Theory and Practice
Subjects: Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, Health & Fitness / Diseases / General, Social Science / Health Geography, Social Science / World / Latin America, Social Science / Culture, Social Science / Environment, Language Arts & Disciplines / Writing / Fiction Writing

Zélia M. Bora has a PhD in Portuguese and Brazilian Studies from Brown University and serves as general editor of Revista Interdisciplinar de Literatura e Ecocrítica.

Animesh Roy is assistant professor in the Department of English at St. Xavier’s College in Jharkhand, India.

Ricardo Ballesteros de la Fuente is professor of Spanish literature at the University of Valladolid in Spain.

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

An Ibero-American Perspective on Narratives of Pandemics

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  • 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.

Details
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  • Lexington Books
    Pages: 236 • Trim: 6¼ x 9½
    978-1-7936-5404-5 • Hardback • August 2023 • $100.00 • (£77.00)
    978-1-7936-5405-2 • eBook • August 2023 • $45.00 • (£35.00)
    Series: Ecocritical Theory and Practice
    Subjects: Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, Health & Fitness / Diseases / General, Social Science / Health Geography, Social Science / World / Latin America, Social Science / Culture, Social Science / Environment, Language Arts & Disciplines / Writing / Fiction Writing
Author
Author
  • Zélia M. Bora has a PhD in Portuguese and Brazilian Studies from Brown University and serves as general editor of Revista Interdisciplinar de Literatura e Ecocrítica.

    Animesh Roy is assistant professor in the Department of English at St. Xavier’s College in Jharkhand, India.

    Ricardo Ballesteros de la Fuente is professor of Spanish literature at the University of Valladolid in Spain.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents
  • 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

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