Coda: Narrating Precarity in Times of the COVID-19 Pandemic (original) (raw)

Literary Representations of Precarious Work, 1840 to the Present, 2021

Abstract

In this coda, the impact of the current global COVID-19 pandemic is assessed on the existing forms of precarity, as well as the new forms of precarity it caused. More specifically, as the world is still coming to terms with the massive and diverse consequences of the pandemic, this coda aims to provide a brief overview of the ways in which theorists and writers have attempted to describe the experience and impact of the pandemic, whether in opinion pieces, short blog posts or in novels. Following the views of Lauren Berlant, these attempts at rendering the impact of the pandemic in a narrative form can be regarded as a way to affectively cope with the pandemic.

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