وبائیں اور جدیدیت

Shaista Hassan

بنیاد (مجّلہ دراساتِ اردو), Vol # 13, Issue # 1
وبائیں اور جدیدیت

وبائیں اور جدیدیت

Shaista Hassan/
June 26, 2022

Pandemics and Modernism

Keywords

Elizabeth Outka, Pandemic, Modern Literature, Devastation, Covid-19, Poetry, Death, War, History.

Abstract

History is full of accounts of devastations caused by pandemics. The destruction caused by influenza in 1918-1919 has no parallel in history. At the same time, humankind faced another devastation in the form of World War I. The physical, mental, and psychological impact of the influenza pandemic on human life was no less intense than the one caused by the war. Nevertheless, the literature produced in the first half of the twentieth century was generally analyzed from the perspective of war. For the first time, Elizabeth Outka studied modern literature from the perspective of pandemics in her latest book titled Viral Modernism. A handful of writers have attempted to describe the havoc caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on human life and how to deal with the post-pandemic situation. This paper presents a review of the literature produced on pandemics in history with particular reference to Elizabeth Outka’s work and the literature produced on influenza (1918-1919) while taking note of the reasons of the disappearance of pandemics in selected texts.

References

Delanty, Gerard (ed.). Pandemics, Politics, and Society. Boston: Walter De Gruyter, 2021.

Gupta, Sanjay. World War-C. London: Headline Publishing Group, 2021.

H. Mcneill, William. Plagues and Peoples. New York: Anchor Press, 1976.

Nelson, Ribeiro, Christian Schwarzengger (ed.). Media and the Dissemination of Fear. Palgrave Macmillan. 2021

Outka, Elizabeth. Viral Modernism. New York: Colombia University Press, 2020.

Vos, Joel. The Psychology of Covid-19. London: Sage Publications, 2021.

W. Mcmillen, Christian. Pandemics A Very Short Introduction. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.

Zakaria, Fareed. Ten Lessons for A Post-Pandemic World. New York: W.W Norton and Company, 2020.

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Hassan, S. (2022). وبائیں اور جدیدیت. بنیاد (مجّلہ دراساتِ اردو), 13(1). https://bunyad.lums.edu.pk/website/journal/article/62b72c568012d/page

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[1]Hassan, S. 2022. وبائیں اور جدیدیت. بنیاد (مجّلہ دراساتِ اردو). 13, 1 (June 2022).

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(1)Hassan, S. وبائیں اور جدیدیت. بنیاد (مجّلہ دراساتِ اردو) 2022, 13 (1).

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HASSAN, Shaista. وبائیں اور جدیدیت. بنیاد (مجّلہ دراساتِ اردو), v. 13, n. 1, 26 June2022.

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Hassan, S. (2022) “وبائیں اور جدیدیت”, بنیاد (مجّلہ دراساتِ اردو), 13(1). Available at: https://bunyad.lums.edu.pk/website/journal/article/62b72c568012d/page (Accessed: 9 June 2026).

IEEE

[1]S. Hassan, “وبائیں اور جدیدیت”, بنیاد (مجّلہ دراساتِ اردو), vol. 13, no. 1, June 2022, Accessed: June 09, 2026. [Online]. Available: https://bunyad.lums.edu.pk/website/journal/article/62b72c568012d/page

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Hassan, Shaista. “وبائیں اور جدیدیت”. بنیاد (مجّلہ دراساتِ اردو), vols. 13, no. 1, June 2022, https://bunyad.lums.edu.pk/website/journal/article/62b72c568012d/page.

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Hassan, Shaista. “وبائیں اور جدیدیت”. بنیاد (مجّلہ دراساتِ اردو) 13, no. 1 (June 26, 2022). Accessed June 9, 2026. https://bunyad.lums.edu.pk/website/journal/article/62b72c568012d/page.

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1.Hassan S. وبائیں اور جدیدیت. بنیاد (مجّلہ دراساتِ اردو) [Internet]. 2022 June 26 [cited 2026 June 9];13(1). Available from: https://bunyad.lums.edu.pk/website/journal/article/62b72c568012d/page

AMA

1.Hassan S. وبائیں اور جدیدیت. بنیاد (مجّلہ دراساتِ اردو). 2022;13(1). Accessed June 9, 2026. https://bunyad.lums.edu.pk/website/journal/article/62b72c568012d/page

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