In the ongoing Covidian Age, classic disease narratives from Daniel Defoe through Mary Shelley to Cormac McCarthy and Stephen King have made a comeback. Explorations of the Arts and Humanities in representing and critiquing pathologies, the “sick role” and medicine, with apocalyptic, extinction, pandemic and other scenarios have also resurfaced. It is in this context that the Dept. of English puts together this Podcast eSeries.
Literature, Medicine and Ageing
By
Ira Raja, Delhi University
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Ira Raja teaches in the Department of English, University of Delhi. She is part of the Global Editorial Collective for the journal Postcolonial Studies.
Coordinators: Anna Kurian & Pramod K Nayar