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Editorial: Special Issue on Diseases, Disasters, Deaths and Disorders in Arts, Literature and Culture

Thakurdas Jana Guest Lecturer, Dept. of English, Bhatter College, Dantan Special Issue on Diseases, Death and Disorder, 2020 In our post-Corona global situation, it has been proved that in the big timeline of evolutionary history, humans occupy a very small place and the historical timeline is very short. Ever since the birth of life on…

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Sense of Innocence and Fascination with Death in Some Selected Poems of Wordsworth

Asish Kr Charan Guest Lecturer, Bhatter College, Dantan. E-mail: akcharan24@gmail.com Special Issue on Diseases, Death and Disorder, 2020 Abstract Death is the great reality that is eternally united with Nature. In the Romantic era death is romanticised; it considered a dream through which one could escape the sufferings and hardships of human life. By knowing what…

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“April is the Cruellest Month”: A Philosophical Inquiry into Humanity during the Corona Pandemic through T. S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land”

Sanjna Plawat Independent Researcher E-mail: sanjnaplawat261@gmail.com Special Issue on Diseases, Death and Disorder, 2020 Abstract Corona pandemic has put a global halt on every human’s normal life. In this turbulent time of hopelessness, civilization is set to witness a test of humanity. The quarantine period is a meditating ground to rectify the faults and strengthen…

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“Corona is the cure humans are the disease”: Coronavirus Disease and Celebration of Death as Sacrifice

Srijoni Banerjee Independent Researcher. E-mail: srijoni.presi@gmail.com Special Issue on Diseases, Death and Disorder, 2020 Abstract The paper aims to analyse two kinds of social media posts and demonstrate how such kinds of responses expose our tendency to celebrate death. Firstly, those posts which claim that different animals have reclaimed their natural habitats. Secondly, posts which consider…

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City-Scapes, Adulteration and Everyday Anxiety: A Study of News Media’s Constitution of Chronic Diseases

Diksha Narang PhD Scholar, South Asian University, Delhi. E-mail: diksha.narang12@gmail.com   Special Issue on Diseases, Death and Disorder, 2020 Abstract In this paper, I analyze food scares in print and television news media. Food scares are crises when trust in the market is undermined. In the Indian context, the trope of adulteration regularizes anxiety as part…

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“Hell hath enlarged Herself”: Reading the Salem Witch Trials in Times of Corona

Priyanka Das  Assistant Professor, Presidency University, Kolkata. Email: priyanka.eng@presiuniv.ac.in Special Issue on Diseases, Death and Disorder, 2020 Abstract This paper seeks to develop parallels between the 2020 Coronavirus pandemic and the Salem witch trials of the late seventeenth century as depicted in the American supernatural Television series Salem. One striking resemblance between the two events is…

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Vulnerable Haptics of Posthuman Bodies in Brenda Peynado’s The Touches

Biju M.A. Assistant Professor, St. Thomas’ College, Thrissur. Email: bijuciefl@gmail.com Special Issue on Diseases, Death and Disorder, 2020 Abstract Genesis of a posthuman era at the eclipse of a human one in an age of exponential technologies and catastrophic climatic change problematizes the complexities of our relational existence. We worry about an uncertain future when machines…

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Immortality beyond Dasein: On Heidegger, Lord Shiva and Death

Dibyendu Bhattacharyay Guest Lecturer, Balagarh Bijoy Krishna Mahavidyalaya. Email: dibyendubhattacharyay9@gmail.com Special Issue on Diseases, Death and Disorder, 2020 Abstract In Being and Time, Heidegger talks about Dasein (Being-in-the-World) as a journey that remains unfulfilled for the being. Heidegger considers death as a barrier for the being because the supreme manifestation of the being remains unattainable….

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Evolution of Human Response to Diseases: Rereading Select Films and Plays in the Context of COVID-19

Krishnendu Bera Assistant Professor, T.P.M. Mahavidyalaya, Cooch Behar. Email: krishnendu.bu@gmail.com Special Issue on Diseases, Death and Disorder, 2020 Abstract From the days of religious interpretation of diseases to the development of modern medical science, human beings overcome a lot of hurdles but some of the human actions regarding COVID-19 also force us to reconsider how far…

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