Queering Dis/Connection within the Pandemic Chronotope in Jodi Picoult’s Wish You Were Here
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https://doi.org/10.5283/copas.393Keywords:
pandemic literature, chronotope, queer studies, COVID-19, Intersectionality, dis/connection, space-time, MemoryAbstract
The COVID-19 pandemic reduced human mobility in a globalized world, altering experiences of time and space. It uncovered power structures and revived past narratives of disease emergence and collective memories of historic pandemics. Using a queer intersectional lens, this paper explores these transformed spatiotemporal dimensions and their effect on human dis/connection by employing the concept of the crisis chronotope (Parui and Simi Raj). It analyzes Jodi Picoult’s Wish You Were Here (2021), examining connections during a crisis that made physical distance necessary. This methodological perspective highlights digital and physical dis/connections and challenges heteronormative temporality in the novel, redefining dis/connection within the pandemic chronotope.
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