Analysing Discourses Within Pandemic Narratives

Abstract

The article seeks to create a framework for the study of pandemic literature by tracing its conceptual and historical roots, and examines how pandemics have been imagined, represented, and reimagined in literary. It explores how the term “pandemic,” as a medical and cultural phenomenon, has emerged as a critical lens through which human experiences of crisis, vulnerability, and resilience are portrayed. Through selected literary texts, the study conducts an analysis of the discourses embedded in pandemic narratives and uses critical theoretical frameworks to demonstrate how political, social, and cultural narratives in pandemics reflect and shape discourses around health, governance, and social responses.