Resumo

BARURE, Walter K.  e  TIVENGA, Doreen R.. Life Writing During a Pandemic: Making Sense of the "New Normal" in Lockdown Extended: Corona Chronicles (2020). JLS [online]. 2022, vol.38, n.1, pp.1-16. ISSN 1753-5387.  http://dx.doi.org/10.25159/1753-5387/10410.

This article focuses on the bourgeoning Covid-19 life narratives written by South African authors, who narrate their ordeals and the "new normal" in a bid to make sense of the impact of the pandemic through the lens of their everyday experiences that are different to those mediatised in mainstream media. Through a close reading and textual analysis of three personal narratives, we discuss how they reconstruct the first lockdown in South Africa, and take stock of the situation by confronting an immediate and distant past, daily acts of survival, private lives and imagined futures. The article also considers how the narrators envision themselves as vulnerable subjects, hence uniquely capturing the intense mood of the lockdown and how it led to a renewed interest in life writing.

Palavras-chave : Covid-19; life writing; lockdown; vulnerability; South Africa.

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