Pandemic Fiction in Canada: Storytelling, Crisis, and Human Connection
Roy and graduate students discuss pandemic fiction by Canadian women authors
Literature Matters
Pandemic Fiction in Canada: Storytelling, Crisis, and Human Connection
A panel moderated by Wendy Roy
with graduate students Alyson Cook, Caragana Ennis, Nicole Jacobson, Delane Just, Emily Pickett, and Sarah Regier
Fri, Apr 9
3-4 pm
via Zoom
Eventbrite registration, here:
Before and during the COVID-19 crisis, a surprisingly large number of twenty-first-century novels published in Canada featured pandemics, many of them by Canadian women authors, including Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam Trilogy (2003-2013), Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven (2014), Cherie Dimaline’s The Marrow Thieves (2017), Larissa Lai’s The Tiger Flu (2018), and Saleema Nawaz’s Songs for the End of the World (2020).
This panel investigates not just representations of disease in these books, but also their explorations of human connections during and after a pandemic, focusing on literary arts as a way to build community in a time of crisis.
For more information: english.department@usask.ca