Format:
Online-Ressource
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
1137339217
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9781137339218
Content:
The 1918 Spanish flu epidemic is now widely recognized as the most devastating disease outbreak in recorded history. This cultural history reconstructs Spaniards' experience of the flu and traces the emergence of various competing narratives that arose in response to bacteriology's failure to explain and contain the disease's spread.
Content:
Though once relegated to the proverbial dustbin of history, the 1918 Spanish flu epidemic is now widely recognized as the most devastating disease outbreak in recorded history. This cultural history sets out to reconstruct Spaniards' collective experience of the flu, and to trace the emergence of competing narratives that arose in response to contemporary bacteriology's failure to explain or contain the disease's spread. As author Ryan A. Davis demonstrates, when a society loses its most significant means of understanding an event of this magnitude, it must turn elsewhere for answers. What Spanish narratives of the flu shared was a discursive anxiety revolving around the preservation of a particular notion of national identity - one that was particularly apparent in the journalistic accounts of the period
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Description based upon print version of record
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Introduction: epidemic genre and spanish flu narrative(s)A mundane mystery: framing the flu in the first epidemic wave -- Of borders and bodies: the second wave begins -- A tale of two states: between an epidemic and a sanitary Spain -- Figuring (out) the epidemic: Don Juan and Spanish influenza -- Visualizing the Spanish flu nation: citizens, characters, and cartoons -- Conclusion: a telling epidemic, a storied nation.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781137339201
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Davis, Ryan A. The Spanish flu New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013 ISBN 9781137339201
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
Spanische Grippe
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