Abstract
This article identifies and provides initial insight into the early literary responses to the COVID‐19 outbreak in Latin America. It focuses on the case of Guayaquil, the epicentre of the pandemic in Ecuador, to examine how writers responded to the health emergency in real time by using online platforms. I argue that, while the virus was spreading, the death toll was rising, and the lockdown was at its most severe, a body of writing deeply engaged with the crisis was taking shape in digital outlets. Its study enables a uniquely contextual understanding of the global crisis from a Latin American perspective.
Highlights
From the first infections to the peak of the death toll’s curve and the timid returns to normality after the lockdowns declared across the globe, stories have emerged from the COVID-19 pandemic
My purpose here is to offer a first approach to the early Ecuadorian literary responses to the COVID-19 pandemic and to lay the basis for future strands of national, regional and global enquiry
The first confirmed case of COVID-19 in Ecuador was reported on 29 February (COE, 2020)
Summary
From the first infections to the peak of the death toll’s curve and the timid returns to normality after the lockdowns declared across the globe, stories have emerged from the COVID-19 pandemic. Medina Cordova contributions of literature in communicating and coming to terms with the social fears and anxieties about the pandemic while raising questions about the need to rethink hegemonic discourses on the meanings of literature after an event that will reshape the global economy. My purpose here is to offer a first approach to the early Ecuadorian literary responses to the COVID-19 pandemic and to lay the basis for future strands of national, regional and global enquiry.
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