Trauma Narratives and Resilience in Post-Pandemic World Literature

Abstract

This paper examines the emergence of post-pandemic literature as a significant corpus within contemporary world literature, analyzing how novelists, poets, and essayists have deployed narrative and linguistic strategies to represent the collective trauma of the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing upon trauma theory, narrative psychology, and comparative literary analysis, the study investigates works from diverse linguistic and cultural traditions to identify common patterns and culturally specific variations in literary responses to the pandemic. The paper argues that post-pandemic literature functions both as a mode of cultural testimony and as a resource for building individual and collective resilience through narrative meaning-making.