Representation of Disease in Literature: A Study of Albert Camus’ La Peste (The Plague)

Over the centuries, European, American, French and African writers have been representing disease in literary works. But not all creative works featuring disease can be ranked as disease literature according to Disease Literary Theory promulgated by Ifeoma Onyemelukwe. This disease literary theory is used in combination with historical, descriptive and sociological methods to study representation of disease in literature. Albert Camus' La peste (1947)/The Plague is used as the study text.