Fractured Narratives and Pandemic Identities : Covid-19, the Postapocalyptic,...

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Fractured Narratives and Pandemic Identities : Covid-19, the Postapocalyptic, the Dystopic, and the Postcolonial, Paperback by Dwivedi, Om Prakash (EDT); Wansbrough, Aleks (EDT), ISBN 1032728140, ISBN-13 9781032728148, Like New Used, Free P&P in the UK Th considers how identities have become more fractured since COVID-19, by thinking of COVID-19 in relation to other crises (economic, social, , and ecological) and by drawing parallels to literature, cinema, and visual art. COVID-19 was a type of apocalypse, a catastrophic destructive event that produced dystopian measures in its wake and drew uncanny parallels to dystopic works of literature and speculative fiction. Yet the pandemic was apocalyptic in another sense too. The word apocalypse derives from apokalupsis, which means disclosure or uncovering. In this way, COVID-19 also revealed the dystopian processes already at work in the world, including forms of surveillance as well as the asymmetries within populations and divides in health outcomes between the Global North and Global South. Indeed, societies that have experienced the horrors of settler colonialism have already survived apocalypses. COVID-19 serves then as a premonition for our climate emergency as well as an echo of other apocalyptic situations, both real and imagined. This book consists of essays from acclaimed theorists and scholars writing amid the pandemic and exposes the asymmetries of our divided world. The volume will be indispensable for scholars and re

• ISBN: 9781032728148
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