Abdeldjalil Larbi Youcef Faculty of Foreign Languages, University Abd el Hamid Ibn Badis. Email: lyoucef27@gmail.com Special Issue on Diseases, Death and Disorder, 2020 Abstract With the outbreak of Covid-19, The Plague, penned more than seventy years ago by the Algeria-born philosopher, Albert Camus, is presently one of the most read novels. This renewed interest can be explained…
Dr. Albrecht Classen University Distinguished Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies, University of Arizona Special Issue on Diseases, Death and Disorder, 2020 How do we respond to a crisis, a catastrophe, a disaster, a crime, major suffering, sickness, death, or a war? There are many different approaches, and humankind had to handle many of…
Fakrul Alam Academic, writer, and translator. Email: falam1951@yahoo.com Special Issue on Diseases, Death and Disorder, 2020 Leaving death and despair in its wake, the corona virus courses its way across the globe, reminding one of a Biblical line— “There is no new thing under the sun.” History has recorded pandemics raging across the world over time and terrible infections periodically…
Arnab Chatterjee Ex- Associate Professor, Sister Nivedita University, Kolkata. E-mail: arnabserampore2011@gmail.com Special Issue on Diseases, Death and Disorder, 2020 Samuel Beckett’s plays show characters with an inherent inability to alter current modes of living. They might be seen as people for whom their once understood stable, cognitive realms along with various phenomenological and hermeneutical functions are…
Thakurdas Jana Guest Lecturer, Department of English, Bhatter College, Dantan, Paschim Medinipur, India. Email: thakurdas0901@gmail.com Health humanities is a rapidly growing transdisciplinary field that incorporates aspects of the arts and humanities to health and health care. Embracing various branches of the humanities such as religious studies, cultural and language studies, history, literature, philosophy, health…
Niladri Mahapatra Guest Lecturer, Department of English, Bhatter College, Dantan, Paschim Medinipur, India. Email: niladrimahapatra222@gmail.com Prof. Tirthankar Das Purkayastha was the former Head of the Department of English, Vidyasagar University, West Bengal and ex-dean, faculties of Arts and Commerce of the same university. He is a well known Renaissance scholar in India and abroad. He was…
Pragati Das State Aided College Teacher, Department of English, Bhatter College, Dantan, Paschim Medinipur, India. Email: pragatidaspogo@gmail.com Special Issue on Diseases, Death and Disorder, 2020 Dr. Albrecht Classen is University Distinguished Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of German Studies at the University of Arizona. He has published more than 105 scholarly…