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"Until It Suddenly Isn't": Two Novels on Life After a Pandemic Disaster
Linnaeus University, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Department of Film and Literature. (Centre for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies)ORCID iD: 0000-0001-8694-9927
2024 (English)In: Humanities, E-ISSN 2076-0787, Vol. 13, no 2, article id 60Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Sustainable development
SDG 12: Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
Abstract [en]

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.

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Basel: MDPI, 2024. Vol. 13, no 2, article id 60
Keywords [en]
pandemics, environmental crisis, Severance, Under the Blue, posthumanism, ecocriticism, globalization, global warming
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General Literature Studies
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Humanities, Comparative literature
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URN: urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-128731DOI: 10.3390/h13020060ISI: 001211182600001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85191755829OAI: oai:DiVA.org:lnu-128731DiVA, id: diva2:1850447
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Special Issue: World Literature in the Times of Pandemics and Plagues

Available from: 2024-04-10 Created: 2024-04-10 Last updated: 2024-05-22Bibliographically approved

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