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The World’s Tsunami: Covid-19 and the Relief Aid of Literature

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Last updated: 04 Jan 2025

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This paper discusses the shocking and deadly effect caused by the eruption of Covid- 19, which can be regarded as a tsunami- like pandemic. It focuses on the therapeutic effect of literature and its role as a crisis-relief -aid through examining four texts of different genres; two of which chronicle the occurrence of an actual pestilence, Cholera, in Egypt, and the other two imagine the outbreak of a deadly pandemic. All texts appeal to our Covid -19 situation and prove the lasting power and impact of literature, regardless of time and place. The first two texts, written in Arabic, are The Days (originally published in 1929), the autobiography of the Egyptian writer Taha Hussein (1889-1973), and the second is “Cholera" (1947), a poem by the Iraqi poet Nazek al- Malaika (1923-2003). The third is TheScarlet Plague (1912), a post-apocalyptic novel written by Jack London (1876-1916). The last one is About Birds We Talk (2010), a novel by Ahmed Khaled Tawfiq (1962-2018).

DOI

10.21608/cse.2022.71439.1104

Keywords

Covid- 19, pandemic, Fear, The Days, Taha Hussein, “Cholera, ” Nazek al- Malaika, The Scarlet Plague, Jack London, post-apocalyptic literature About Birds We Talk, Ahmed Khaled Tawfiq

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First Name

Heba

Last Name

Sharobeem

MiddleName

Makram

Affiliation

English Department, Faculty of Education, Alexandria University

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hebamak@yahoo.com

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الاسکندرية

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0000-0002-0216-6368

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2021

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2

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30225

Issue Date

2021-12-01

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2021-04-07

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2021-12-01

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72

Page End

100

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0575-1624

Online ISSN

2682-2504

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CSE_Volume 2021_Issue 2_Pages 72-100.pdf

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Cairo Studies in English

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The World’s Tsunami: Covid-19 and the Relief Aid of Literature

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22 Jan 2023