Description
Book SynopsisDocuments the first year of the pandemic in real time, bringing together humanities scholars from the University of Michigan to address what it feels like to be human during the COVID-19 crisis.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Kristin Hass, Introduction: Living with the Virus that Knows How We See Each Other
- Part I: Naming
- Christopher Matthews, This Virus Has No Eyes: Telling Stories in the Land of Monsters
- Sara Blair, Facing our Pandemic
- Patrick Bates, Alexandra Friedman, Adam Kouraimi, Ashley Lucas, Sriram Papolu, and Cozine, Living on Loss of Privileges: What We Learned in Prison
- Michelle McClellan and Aprille McKay, Not Even Past: Archiving 2020 in Real Time
- Part II: Waiting
- David Caron, Waiting = Death: COVID-19, the Struggle for Racial Justice, and the AIDS Pandemic
- Donald S. Lopez, Buddhism, the Pandemic, and the Demise of the Future Tense
Jim Cogswell, COVID Diary: Hands, Nets, and Other Devices
- Amal Hassan Fadlalla, Social Distances in Between: Excerpts from my COVID-19 Diaries
- Part III: Grieving
- Suzanne L. Davis, Grief and the Importance of Real Things during COVID-19
- Sara Forsdyke, Looking Backwards In Order to Look Forwards: Lessons about Humanity and the Humanities from the Plague at Athens
- William A. Calvo-QuirÓs, Protests, Prayers, and Protections: Three Visitations during COVID-19
- Melanie Tanielian, Soliloquous Solipsism: An Attempt to Put Words to a Loss of Words
- Part IV: More Waiting/Sheltering
- Frances Kai-Hwa Wang, Finding Home Between the Vincent Chin Case and COVID-19
- Daniel Herbert, Caged with the Tiger King: The Media Business and the Pandemic
- Nick Tobier, Prosthetics for Right Now
- Part V: Resisting
- Abigail J. Stewart, COVID-19’s Attack on Women and Feminists’ Response: The Pandemic, Inequality, and Activism
- Eimeel Castillo, The Virus that Kills Twice: COVID-19 and Domestic Violence under Governmental Impunity in Nicaragua
- Sueann Caulfield, “Our Steps Come from Long Ago”: Living Histories of Feminisms and the Fight Against COVID in Brazil
- Abigail A. Dumes, Making Sense of Sex and Gender Differences in Biomedical Research on COVID-19
- Marisol Fila, Digital Encounters from an Intersectional Perspective: Black Women in Argentina
- Verena Klein, The Media Discourse on Women-Led Countries in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Using Germany as an Example
- Jayati Lal, Coronavirus Capitalism and the Patriarchal Pandemic in India: Why We Need A “Feminism for the 99%” that Focuses on Social Reproduction.
- Özge Savas, Whose Challenge is #ChallengeAccepted? Performative Online Activism During the COVID-19 Pandemic and its Erasures
- Abiola Akiyode-Afolabiand and Ronke Olawale, COVID-19: Nigerian Women and the Fight for Holistic Policy
- Part VI: Not Waiting
- Roland Hwang, COVID-19 through an Asian American Lens: Scapegoating, Harassment, and the Limits of the Asian American Response
- David Patterson, The High Stakes of Blame: Medieval Parallels to a Modern Crisis
- Nicholas Henriksen and Matthew Neubacher, Un-Muting Voices in a Pandemic: Linguistic Profiling in a Moment of Crisis
- Anita Gonzalez, Acting Out: Performance and Political Mobilization in the Pandemic
