TY  - JOUR
AU  - Mohammed M. HASSOUNA
PY  - 2023
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
JF  - Cultura: International Journal of Philosophy of Culture and Axiology
IS  - 2
VL  - 17
SN  - 2065-5002
TI  - Escaping Epidemy: Andrée Chedid’s The Sixth Day
DO  - 10.3726/CUL022020.0010
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1377623
N2  - In early 2020 COVID-19 turned the whole world into place of horror, capitals into ghost-towns, and hospitals into tombs. But this was not the first time the world was hit by such a catastrophic pandemic. Many countries have hit by innumerable plagues, epidemics and pandemics. It is important to keep these terrible incidents in the collective memory so that precautions are taken and they do not happen again. In 1947, a huge spread of cholera hit Egypt leaving thousands of death and infected as well as a disastrous impact on the socio-economic life of the country. Writer Andrée Chedid sheds light on this epidemic in her novel 
KW  - Psychological Trauma, Cholera, Egypt, 1947, Epidemic
ER  -