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.
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Yvonne Völkl ist Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaftlerin im Fachgebiet der Romanistik. In ihrer Forschung beschäftigt sie sich u.a. mit Literatur und Presse des 18. Jahrhunderts, franko-kanadischer Migrationsliteratur sowie zeitgenössischen Corona Fictions.