English Language, Literature & Culture

Special Issue

The Pandemic of Covid-19 and Literature

  • Submission Deadline: 31 March 2022
  • Status: Submission Closed
  • Lead Guest Editor: Faisal Al-Doori
About This Special Issue
Numerous volumes of poetry and fiction have been published during the Pandemic time and they need to be studied. The Pandemic of Covid-19 affected every aspect of our life including human, animal, and nature. The writers dealt with these aspects recalling the history of the world, literature, mythology, science, politics, and many other elements which were reflected directly or as hints in their works. This issue aims at focusing on these writers who dealt with the causes of the pandemic, the tools used during the pandemic to prevent from the disease, their expectations of the shape of the world after the pandemic, and other unseen or revealed thoughts as reflected in their works. The significance of this issue in the first place is how the writers depicted science, politics, mythology, and other branches of knowledge in their works and comingled to produce their brilliant literary works. For instance, climate change in science, and conspiracy theory in politics. This issue will attract the papers dealing with this topic all over the world.

Keywords:

  1. Pandemic Covid-19
  2. climate change (the pandemic and science)
  3. conspiracy theory (the pandemic and politics)
  4. the pandemic in mythology
  5. mask as a medical and literary tool
  6. social distancing during the pandemic and its political representations
  7. the world after the pandemic
Lead Guest Editor
  • Faisal Al-Doori

    Department of English, Tikrit University, Al-Dour, Iraq