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Title | Another Fever Year? Making sense of pandemics with a historical graphic novel |
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Author | Griffith R.; Smith J. M. |
Date | 2023 |
Abstract | This qualitative study highlights how children's literature can serve as a springboard for discussing current events while making connections with a similar historical event. Undergraduate students enrolled in children's literature courses read the graphic novel Fever Year: The Killer Flu of 1918 and discussed the parallels between the book and the COVID-19 pandemic. Findings indicate strong text-to-self and text-to-world connections between the events of the flu of 1918 highlighted in the graphic novel and those of the COVID-19 pandemic. Connections included restrictions and closures, mask mandates, vaccine development, medical theories, and theories of spread. Information dissemination and consumption was a prominent theme. |
Link | https://doi.org/10.1111/lit.12349
https://repository.tcu.edu/handle/116099117/61249 |
Department | Education |
Subject | children's literature
COVID-19 discussion Flu of 1918 graphic novel historical fiction literature circles pandemic Spanish Flu text connections |