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Title The Body and the Witnessing: A Corporeal reading of the selected Covid-19 Pandemic literature

Author(s) Ms. Fatymah Ishtiaq

Abstract Title: The Body and the Witnessing: A Corporeal Reading of Female Precarity in the Selected COVID-19 Pandemic Literature This research examines female precarity during the COVID-19 pandemic in Sarah Moss's The Fell (2021) and Sarah Hall's Burntcoat (2021). The study goes beyond the physiological implications of the COVID-19 pandemic to include a capitalistic and psychological analysis of The Fell and Burntcoat respectively. Judith Butler's concept of precarity, along with Jose Medina and Tempest Henning's concept of bodily testimony is employed to explore different forms of precarity faced by women during the pandemic. More than its economic inferences, the focus is specifically on the sociological aspect of capitalistic and psychological implications of COVID-19 on women. By focusing on the body as the main point of study and studying its role in tandem with the pandemic, the study investigates various forms of female precarity in the selected texts and the role of the body as a witness to the COVID-19 crisis. Furthermore, the study delves into how the protagonists' individual bodily testimonies in the novels contribute to formulating a broader understanding of the collective bodily testimony related to the COVID-19 crisis. This research is an important addition to the scholarship related to the COVID-19 pandemic and the burgeoning field of medical humanities. It also gives a new dimension to the concept of precarity, previously limited to neoliberalism, by studying it in relation to a medical phenomenon. This research may help in understanding the pandemic beyond its physiology and prepare people to combat such crises in the future

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Publication Date 2023-12-19

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