Castellated abbeys, fortified enclaves: immunity and sovereignty in edgar allan poe’s ‘masque of the red death’ and contemporary brazil

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This essay uses elements of Roberto Esposito`s immunitary paradigm to shed light on Edgar Allan Poe`s "Masque of the Red Death" and, in parallel, to think through social and spatial stratification in contemporary Brazil. In examining the effects of the "Red Death", or Covid-19 in Brazil under Jair Bolsonaro`s government, I observe that Bolsonaro`s status as a democratically elected official (unlike Prince Prospero) has forced him to give certain concessions to the population, in the form of aid payments, that maintain his power. In Edgar Allan Poe`s "The . . .

 



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