Representations of Crisis in Literature
ISSN: 3048-6920 | DOI Prefix: 10.70396
Publication Date: 28.02.2026
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About the Special Issue
The twenty-first century is increasingly characterised by a condition often described as 'permacrisis', a convergence of persistent and overlapping disruptions, including ecological degradation, global pandemics, political polarisation, economic instability, and widening social inequities. In such an atmosphere of sustained turbulence, literature assumes a critical function that extends beyond passive reflection. It becomes a dynamic site in which the human experience of crisis is shaped, interrogated, and rendered intelligible. While political rhetoric, media soundbites, and statistical data frequently reduce upheaval to abstract figures and policy debates, literary works illuminate the lived textures of disruption.
The primary aim of this Special Issue, Representations of Crisis in Literature, is to foreground innovative and interdisciplinary scholarship that examines how crises are narrated, aestheticised, contested, and reimagined across genres, periods, and cultural contexts. We invite contributions that explore literary engagements with war, displacement, environmental breakdown, pandemics, economic precarity, identity conflicts, technological anxieties, and existential despair. Particular emphasis is placed on studies that interrogate the narrative strategies, ethical implications, and cultural politics through which literature renders crisis both comprehensible and transformative.
We welcome original research articles, comparative studies, theoretical interventions. and methodological examinations that provide critical insight into the evolving poetics of crisis. Submissions that demonstrate cross-cultural perspectives, archival depth, interdisciplinary methodologies, or engagement with contemporary global challenges are especially encouraged. Through this Special Issue, we seek to curate a rigorous and timely body of scholarship that bridges historical literary traditions with present-day urgencies, highlighting literature’s indispensable role in shaping understanding, fostering resilience, and imagining alternative futures in an age defined by uncertainty.
Guest Editors
Dr. Samuel Rufus
Associate Professor of English
Dean of International Programmes
Madras Christian College (Autonomous)
Chennai– 600 059
Tamil Nadu, India
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Dr S. Saira Banu
Associate Professor
Department of English
Fatima College, Madurai
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Dr K T Tamilmani M.A., B.Ed.,M.Phil., PGCTE.,Ph.D.,
Vice-Principal
Research Supervisor in English
Head & Associate Professor
PG & Research Dept. of English
Nehru Memorial College(Autonomous)
Affiliated to Bharathidasan University
Puthanampatti -621007
Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu
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Dr. S. Mohamed Haneef M.A., M.Phil., B.Ed., Ph.D.,
Head & Associate Professor of English
IQAC Coordinator
Sadakathullah Appa College (Autonomous)
Rahmath Nagar, Tirunelveli - 627011
Tamilnadu, South India
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Dr. Yunush Ahamed Mohamed Sherif MA., SET., NET., PhD.,
Assistant Professor
Research Department of English
Sadakathullah Appa College
Rahmath Nagar, Tirunelveli - 627011
Tamilnadu, South India
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Dr V. Sathish M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D.,
Assistant Professor of English
St. John's College, Palayamkottai
Affliated to Manonmaniam Sundaranar University - MS University
Tirunelveli - 627002
Tamilnadu, South India
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Dr F Shophet Peter Benedsingh M.A., M.Phil., NET., Ph.D.,
Research Supervisor
Assistant Professor of English
St. John's College, Palayamkottai
Affliated to Manonmaniam Sundaranar University - MS University
Tirunelveli - 627002
Tamilnadu, South India
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