Literature Produced During the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Abstract

In the early 2020's, the Corona Epidemic (also called COVID-19) affected every walk of life and all aspects of social life underwent many changes. Like other fields, Urdu literature was also deeply affected. Many writers and poets felt the crisis and spoke of its pain, attitudes of people and tragedies associated with Corona crises. Especially when the virus spread all over the world, professional and amateur writers and poets alike made this important tragedy their subject through their articles and poetry. A variety of communication media were used for this, including newspapers, weekly journals, social media and literary magazines. Apart from this, novels were also written on this subject and Corona crisis was also made the subject in poetry. From the point of view of literary studies, such a creative writing on the Corona crisis is an interesting trend.

Many new trends can be noticed by looking at the creative writings during the Corona epidemic. Many words were used so frequently that they became part of Urdu literature such as social distance, lockdown, quarantine, mask and loneliness etc. were frequently used in the writings. Similarly, the psychological effects of the Corona crisis can be felt in the writings. The helplessness of the patients, the loneliness caused by lockdown and the economic hardships, these were the difficulties which were felt by the authors and were made subject in the writings.

This research study examines the psychological review of the selected literary works and examines the effects of the epidemic on the writings of authors. Study will cover and see uuniqueness of Urdu creative writings due to the practices of lockdown, quarantine, social distances and isolation. It is studied that what were the authors’ feelings & how he/she expressed his/her feelings and what are the psychological effects of the epidemic on the creative writings.