Edited by M. Loreto Vilar, Marisa Siguan (Universitat de Barcelona) and Cristina Alsina Rísquez (ADHUC-Universitat de Barcelona), Escriptures de pandèmia (Edicions de la Universitat de Barcelona, 2021) is published as part of the collection CRIC- Construcción y representación de identidades culturales. The monograph brings together creative works and studies on illness, pandemics and confinement. It opens with texts by the writers Maja Haderlap and Felicitas Hoppe, in a bilingual German-Catalan edition, accompanied by notes by the translator, Anna Montané Forasté (University of Barcelona). The book as a whole is composed of studies and critical texts on the experience and writing of pandemics in different historical moments and cultural contexts. Among others, it includes three studies carried out by members of the ADHUC-Universitat de Barcelona research staff. Meritxell Matas Revilla follows the trace of the pandemic in the work of 21st century Catalan poets such as Anna Gas, Mireia Calafell, Maria Isern, Raquel Santanera and Silvie Rothkovic. Toni R. Juncosa analyses the experience and writing of HIV+ in the work of the queer and racialised poet Danez Smith. Sara Baila Bigné explores vulnerability by considering the limits of the skin and the street according to Judith Butler’s philosophy.
