Ibero-American Perspective on Narratives of Pandemics

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.

Narratives of Pandemics is a timely volume which provides a valuable lens to understand the role of literature and culture and explore the impact of human actions on the environment by looking at the interrelationship between pandemics, environment and literature in the Ibero-American region. Narratives of Pandemics is a must-read for anyone curious to explore how the experience of pandemics have been represented through Latin-American literature and its culture, one deeply attached to the natural world. This carefully edited collection brings together narratives that question the impact of human actions on the environment and looks at how pandemics are related to environmental destruction.

• Preface, by Zélia M. Bora, Animesh Roy, and Ricardo Ballesteros de la FuenteIntroduction: Narratives of Pandemics: Literature and Culture—An Iberoamerican Perspective, by Zélia M. Bora, Animesh Roy, and Ricardo Ballesteros de la FuentePart IChapter 1. Tuberculosis and Melancholy in the Work of Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, by Juan Pascual Gay and Mercedes Pascual ZavalaChapter 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. CocaChapter 3. The Language of a Sick Nation: Epidemics and Environmental Destruction in the Narratives of Lima Barreto, by Zélia M. BoraPart IIChapter 4. Guatemalan Expressions: Memorials and Private Reflective Spaces during the Internal Conflict and Covid-19 Pandemic, by Martha C. Galván-MandujanoChapter 5. Between Life and Death: Practices of Healing of the Ecuadorian Siona Nationality as a Political Spirituality, by María Fernanda Solórzano GranadaChapter 6. Now That We Are Back to School…Pandemic, Environment, and Community Links, by Norma Georgina Gutiérrez SerranoChapter 7. Chronicle of Life during Covid-19 Pandemic in Mexico, by Georgina Vega FregosoChapter 8. Afro-Brazilians and Covid-19: Revisiting the Concepts Necropolitics and Genocide, by Siddharth Monteiro Bora and Evely LibanoriChapter 9. Language and Pandemics: Uses and Effects of Whatsapp—Students and Teacher under Isolation, by Juarez Nogueira LinsChapter 10. The Covid-19 Pandemic and Agency for a New Environmental Ethic, by Maria Geralda de Miranda and Bruno Matos de FariasChapter 11. Biopolitics and Environmental Governance in Time of the New Coronavirus Pandemic, by Marcus Alexandre Cavalcanti and Katia Eilane Santos Avelar