Olive Senior’s Pandemic Poems: A Postcolonial Perspective on the COVID-19 Pandemic
IntroductionIn her preface to her collection Pandemic Poems, Jamaican writer Olive Senior refers to the COVID-19 pandemic as a “truly historic moment” when “everyone across the globe [was] sharing the same experience” (Senior 2021: viii) in the sense that everyone was somehow – though in very diffe...
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| Sažetak: | IntroductionIn her preface to her collection Pandemic Poems, Jamaican writer Olive Senior refers to the COVID-19 pandemic as a “truly historic moment” when “everyone across the globe [was] sharing the same experience” (Senior 2021: viii) in the sense that everyone was somehow – though in very different ways – affected by this event. Moreover, Senior stresses the unprecedented importance of sharing information online across the world during the crisis: “[…] for the first time [we had] the tec... |
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