JELLiC: Journal of English Language, Literature, and Culture: Special Issue 02, May 2021

International Peer Reviewed Journal of the Cameroon English Language and Literature Association

This volume seeks to collect and publish highly critical and engaging discourses on the role of literature, language and culture in the perception and understanding of bodily and psychiatric illnesses and death. Contributions should examine how language, literature and cultural forms are used to portray infection, illness and death. The volume also welcomes theoretical and ethical explorations of textual and linguistic elements: how they (dis)function in the context of disease and death; how they evoke or (re)create a sensation of empathy within the reader; and how they convey beauty or "music in the midst of desolation" (Laurence Binyon). Contributions can also examine literary and linguistic perceptions of how art, medicine, domestic arrangements, and technology contribute to and/or facilitate the understanding of and reaction to disease and death. (CFP)