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Contagion and Confinement
2022
Journal of World Literature
This article takes two epidemics, one historical and the other allegorical, for comparison against the current Covid-19 crisis. Daniel Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year consists of a narrator whose objectivity and existence are ambiguous. José Saramago's Blindness, published in the original Portuguese as an "essay," traces the journey of a cluster of citizens through a polis afflicted by a sudden, infectious outbreak. The respective experiences of confinement: at home, in a disused mental
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