The Neo/Bio/Colonial Hot Zone
African Viruses, American Fairytales
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8104065 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lisa Lynch (0000-0001-9697-9855, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ), Lisa M Lynch (0000-0002-3421-5793, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 233-252 |
| Publication date | 1998-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Cultural Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1367-8779 • E-ISSN: 1460-356X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/13678779980010020501 |
| OpenAlex | W2151088531 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 8 |
This article explores the proliferation of nonfiction narratives which warn of an impending global pandemic of African origin. Through a reading of four texts — Richard Preston's The Hot Zone, Laurie Garrett's The Coming Plague, Richard Kaplan's The Ends of the Earth, and Jeffrey Goldberg's ‘Our Africa Problem’ — the author argues that such pandemic narratives reflect unease about the United States' current and future role in Africa or other non-Western places, after a half-century of largely unsuccessful ‘development’. Second, plague tales reflect anxieties about environmental devastation in Africa and elsewhere. The article concludes that the most frightening aspect of these contemporary ‘plague tales' is the solutions they suggest to the ‘problem’ of a coming plague
Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Colonialism · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 · Development economics · Ethnology · Literature · Narrative · Pandemic · Plague (disease · Political economy · Political science · Reading (process · Sociology · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis · History · Law
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,2 |
| Citation span | 2001 - 2024 (24) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |