COVID Graffiti as a Genre of Literary Writing

Abstract

The present paper focuses on COVID graffiti as a unique genre of literature. The application of Multimodal Discourse Analysis research method reveals the narrative potential of COVID graffiti texts. The results of the study point out that COVID graffiti mostly uses intertextuality as a literary discourse strategy to convey an efficient and persuasive message, alongside other strategies meant to express isolated people’s existential fears and concerns, the experienced anxiety and discomfort caused by the “new normal.” The empirical material comes to affirm the inextricable relationship between literature as verbal and the current harsh reality as non-verbal entities that complement each other in the complex process of meaning-making.