literature and the plague

Reading Pandemics: From Boccaccio to Indigenous Futurism
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Reading Pandemics: From Boccaccio to Indigenous Futurism

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 / 11 May 2020

Join us -- at a safe distance -- on this journey through the canonical and radical as we look to literary representations of pandemics in the past to help us understand the politics and possibilities of the present COVID-19 pandemic.

Why Boccaccio’s ‘The Decameron’ Can Help Guide Us Through COVID-19
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Why Boccaccio’s ‘The Decameron’ Can Help Guide Us Through COVID-19

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 / 22 April 2020

Rather than write about death and the world unfolding in the throes of the Black Plague, Giovanni Boccaccio instead wrote about the utopian potential of storytelling.