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Toward a Pandemic Poetics: Contamination, Infiltration, and Dispersal in Inger Christensen’s Alphabet (2021)

Configurations: A Journal of Literature, Science, and Technology
Volume: 29
Issue: 4
Pages: 405-416
Publication date: 2021
Language: English

URI: https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/836415

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Nuclear industry Science and literature Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) 21st century 20th century, late Derrida, Jacques

This paper draws a parallel between the anxieties of the Covid-19 pandemic, and the historical context of “nuclear anxiety” (Cordle 2008). Considering Inger Christensen’s 1981 collection Alphabet alongside Jacques Derrida’s work on spectrality, this paper begins to develop a poetics of the pandemic by turning to a poetics of the nuclear, where contamination, recurrence, and dispersal are established as key formal techniques. This poetics of the nuclear, with its textual manifestations of anxiety and contamination, offers us a new lens with which to approach the emerging corpus of pandemic poetry.

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