ABSTRACT
COVID-19’s multifaceted nature propels cultural trauma, memory and crisis research into new territories and multitheoretical frameworks. It makes us concerned with the ways in which to grapple with the silence caused by the shock of pandemic and the lack of forms and words to express new traumatic experience. Trying to approach the present in a meaningful way and foreseeing the future we associate the ongoing crises with comparable historical events of similar traumatic and globally threatening nature and shared Belgrade situatedness. The chapter maps the way COVID-19 (hi)stories keep transforming from info and facts into fiction genres, or from stories of the present into the ones of the future and past; and tracks the conversion of pandemic stories into a pandemic memoryscape such that it connects narratives and space, lieu de memoire and noeud de crise. Newly established relationships with different past narratives add to the meanings evolving from our contemporary engagements with the trauma.
