“…epidemics are never only about pathogens. They are also filtered through the words of newspapers, proclamations, and popular accounts — words that, like folk tales, provided frameworks for speaking about disaster.” Official COVID-19 awareness poster (2020) by the Ministry of Health of Ukraine, reimagining Shevchenko wearing a protective mask. The inscription «Борітеся — поборете» (“StruggleContinueContinue reading “Epidemics in Word and Imagination: Ukrainian Literature Between Folklore, the Press, and Science”
