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This edited book analyses how artists, authors, and cultural practitioners have responded to and represented episodes of epidemics/pandemics through history. Covering a broad range of notable epidemics/pandemics (black death, cholera, Influenza, AIDS, Ebola, COVID-19), the chapters examine the cultural representations of epidemics and pandemics in different contexts, periods, languages, media, and genres. Interdisciplinary in nature and drawing on perspectives from medicine, literature, medical anthropology, philosophy of medicine, and cultural theory, the book investigates and emphasizes the urgent need to reflect on past catastrophes caused by such outbreaks. By delving into cultural history, it re-examines how societies and communities have responded in the past to species-threatening epidemics/pandemics. Sure to be of interest to lay readers as well as students and researchers, this work situates epidemics and pandemics outbreaks within the contexts of culture and narrative, and their complex and layered representation, commenting on intersections of contagion, culture, and community. It offers a cross-cultural, global, and comparative analysis of the trajectories, histories and responses to various epidemics/pandemics that impacted people worldwide.

Pandemics and Epidemics in Cultural Representation

IntroductionSathyaraj Venkatesan, Antara Chatterjee, A David Lewis, Brian Callender
I Framing Pandemics/Epidemics1.Epidemic Narrative: Two ParadigmsDilip Kumar Das
II Charting Medieval and Early Modern Pestilences2.Chaucer's Canterbury Tales as a Postpandemic TextLorenz A. Hindrichsen3."The Invisible Operator": Plague, Corruption and Conspiracy in Renaissance DramaRebecca Welshman
III Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Pandemics: Rupture and (Re)configurations of Community4.Three Facets of the Literary Imagination of Cholera: Hysteria, Ridicule, and the Rise of Bacteriology, 1830-1900Aureo Lustosa Guerios5.The Blue Death: Cholera and Reimagined Community in Nineteenth-century HavanaBethany M Wade
IV The Spanish Flu and its Afterlives6.Reading Toronto's Response to Spanish Influenza: The Globe and Daily Star Report on the 1918-20 Pandemic's Second WaveCheryl Thompson and Lucy Wowk7.Outbreak Narratives of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic: Contagion, Community, and Politics in Myla Goldberg's Wickett's Remedy and Thomas Mullen's The Last Town on EarthPei-chen Liao



V Pandemics/Epidemics in Indian Literature8.Spatial Pathologies: The Biopolitics of Disease, Death, and the Caste-body in Ananthamurthy's Samskara: A Rite for a Dead ManGaana Jayagopalan
VI Millennial Pandemics: AIDS, COVID-19 and Beyond9. "No Country for the Infirm": Reading Angels in America During COVID-19Jessica C. Hume 10."Bleeding" into Reality: Popular Representations of Ebola and the 2013-2016 Ebola EpidemicRebecca Henderson11.Wearing Masks: Living and Coping "WITH CORONA" in Japan under the PandemicAkinori Hamada12.<3 I AM TRACY: Meme Culture, Coping, and Community during the COVID-19 PandemicJulie M. Powell 13.Comics, Cartoons, and Vignettes: The Graphic Narratives of the COVID- 19 PandemicMonica Lalanda
VII Health Inequity in the Time of COVID-1914."their lives just don't matter?": "Racing" COVID-19 and Graphic MedicineSathyaraj Venkatesan15.Caste in Epidemics in India: A Historical and Literary ReadingAntara Chatterjee