Analyzing the COVID-19 as Rhetorical Agency in Selected South African Social News
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This paper examines the representations of the COVID-19 in selected social news, posted in South African online platforms in March and April 2021. Employing close-reading strategy with the theoretical lens of health humanities and new materialisms, it investigates how human knowledge(s) give voice to the COVID-19 in South Africa where both the COVID-19 and poverty have been considered as crucial issues in online media platforms and how the COVID-19 as an actor of narration shapes rhetorical modes, becoming a rhetorical agent in the social news to encourage the desire for systematic global changes from South Africa. Moreover, this paper explores how the selected social news as a platform and a literary genre are transformed during the pandemic in South Africa. By doing so, it can contribute to the field of health humanities, aiming to illustrate that reading literary genres with the recognition of inanimate agencies can help us understand what can be proceeded in order to transform our actions as preparations and responses to any global emergencies to come.
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