Pandemic Protagonists

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Pandemic Protagonists is written by Yvonne Völkl and published by transcript Verlag. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 3839466164 (ISBN 10) and 9783839466162 (ISBN 13).

During the first mandatory lockdowns of the Covid-19 pandemic, citizens worldwide turned to »pandemic fictions« or started to produce their own »Corona Fictions« across different media. These accounts of (previously) experienced or imagined health crises feature a great variety of protagonists and their (re)actions in response to the exceptional circumstances. The contributors to this volume take a closer look at different pandemic protagonists in fictional narratives relating to the Covid-19 pandemic as well as in existing pandemic fictions. Thereby they provide new insights into pandemic narratives from a cultural, literary, and media studies perspective from antiquity to today.