Narratives and Metaphors Inspired by the COVID-19 Trauma

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Author(s): Vicent Salvador (University Jaume I, Spain)and Diana Nastasescu (University Jaume I, Spain)
Copyright: 2022
Pages: 12
Source title: Handbook of Research on Historical Pandemic Analysis and the Social Implications of COVID-19
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Antonio Cortijo Ocaña (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)and Vicent Martines (University of Alicante, Spain)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-7987-9.ch017

Keywords: Culture & Population Studies / Information Science Reference / Social Sciences & Humanities / Sociology

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The process of the COVID-19 pandemic has produced various social convulsions in our environment. Among these consequences is the development of an abundant literary and paraliterary production. Much of this production stimulated by the pandemic adopts a narrative form (micro-narratives, tales, personal testimonies): it consists of short narratives by non-professional writers included in recent books or on the internet. Based on a sample of this type of text in Spanish, the authors have carried out a study of various aspects of this creative activity, mainly metaphors that convey thematic motifs such as the war against the virus and the home as a complex, ambiguous symbol.

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