Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Acknowledgments 7
4. Coming to Terms with a Crisis 9
5. Pandemics Between Material Causes and Figurative/Ideological Interpretations 21
6. Depicting SARS-CoV-2 39
7. Viral Commemoration 59
8. Corona Fictions Anthologies 91
9. Fiction as a Tool to Imagine the Pandemic 115
10. A Year of “Very Historic Breakthroughs”? 139
11. Contagious Economic Failure? 169
12. “Vacuna o muerte” 193
13. Donald Trump’s Viral Narratives and Shifting Pandemic Communication 219
14. Confronting and Assuaging Pandemic Anxieties Through Horror Media in Christina Henry’s The Girl in Red 235
15. Literary Reflections on the Institution of Science and COVID-19 253
16. A World After the Pandemic 277
17. About the Contributors 301