Pandemics and Literature

Pandemics and Literature
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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Total Pages : 244
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ISBN-10 : 9781040194249
ISBN-13 : 1040194249
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Book Synopsis Pandemics and Literature by : Kamlesh Mohan

Download or read book Pandemics and Literature written by Kamlesh Mohan and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-11-15 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides a literary-cum-historiographical analysis of epidemics and pandemics. It looks at folklore, tribal folktales, eyewitness accounts, memoirs and missionary writings from India and the west to explore the history of some of the major outbreaks in history. The chapters focus on the impact of outbreaks such as plague, cholera, malaria, tuberculosis and COVID-19, upon the material life of people, their social dislocation and their complex responses to such crises. The book studies the role of pandemics in pushing scientists, social actors and littérateurs to develop new paradigms in knowledge generation, theories of environmental dislocation and the economic slide. It examines themes such as changes in the perception of epidemic diseases across different periods of history, popular responses to state intervention during epidemics, gendering epidemics, as well as the impact of rumours during epidemics. An important contribution to the social history of health and medicine, the volume will be useful for students and researchers of cultural studies and medical anthropology, public health, literature, history of pandemics and epidemics, sociology of medicine and South Asian studies.


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