Mina Qiao, "The Coronavirus Pandemic in Japanese Literature and Popular Culture "
English | ISBN: 103237635X | 2023 | 180 pages | EPUB | 1031 KB
English | ISBN: 103237635X | 2023 | 180 pages | EPUB | 1031 KB
This volume is the first book-length collection on Japanese literary and popular cultural responses to the coronavirus pandemic in English.
Disrupting the narrative of COVID-19 as a catastrophe without precedent, this book contextualizes the COVID-19 global public health crisis and pandemic-induced social and political turbulence in a post-industrial society that has withstood multiple major destructions and disasters. From published fiction by major authors to anonymous accounts on social media, from network TV shows to contents by Virtual YouTubers (VTubers), in both "high" and "low" culturescapes, timely representations of coronavirus and individual and social livings under its impact emerge. These narratives, either personal or top-down, all endeavor to fathom this unexpected disruption of modern linear progress. Exploring the paradoxes underlying the "new normal" of Japanese society of the present day, the book collectively demonstrates how the narratives of coronavirus are not "
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