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COVID-19: Pandemic Reading
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American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 681–688.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Sari Altschuler; Priscilla Wald Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 In 1832, a global cholera pandemic reached US shores. Like COVID-19, cholera was a wholly new disease in the United States (although considerably deadlier), and it was, like the novel coronavirus, a poorly...
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The Chronopolitics of COVID-19
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American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 767–779.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Robert Peckham Abstract This paper examines the temporal politics of the COVID-19 pandemic, arguing that despite the emphasis on digital real-time coverage and epidemiological forecasting, the pandemic has been understood as a historical event, even as it has been unfolding. The paper considers...
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How Do We See COVID-19? Visual Iconographies of Racial Contagion
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American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 707–722.
Published: 01 December 2020
... organizations create visual imagery to teach the public to imagine we can see and therefore avoid contaminants that are invisible to the naked eye. Comparison of COVID-19 with other global disease outbreaks shows how a core set of contagion media visualizations are repeatedly deployed with subtle adaptations...
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Johns Hopkins University COVID-19 Dashboard. Center for Systems Science and...
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Public Humanities in the Reconstructed University
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American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 781–790.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Sophia Leonard; Benjamin Reiss; Víctor Velázquez Antonio; Makenzie Renee Fitzgerald Abstract Colleges and universities that can withstand the fallout of the COVID-19 crisis will need to redouble their efforts to engage students in the kinds of intellectual and social experiences that cannot...
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How Quarantine Attempts to Universalize the Black Condition
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American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 697–706.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Kelly L. Bezio Abstract This essay establishes similarities between control over Black bodies’ movement under chattel slavery and social distancing measures employed during the COVID-19 pandemic. Its primary concern is how protecting public health necessitates undesired movement on the part...
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Dread
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American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 689–696.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Jennifer C. James Abstract Reinterpreting nineteenth-century philosopher Søren Kierkegaard’s theory of “dread,” this essay situates the fear surrounding COVID-19 within a larger historical framework to consider the affective dimension of the virus’s emergence for African Americans. Copyright ©...
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Giving Up
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American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 791–798.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Michael Bérubé Abstract In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, this essay examines a variety of visions of apocalypse and civilizational collapse, asking how we can imagine a world without us (as in Alan Weisman’s book of that title), or whether we will merely eke out a post–climate disaster...
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An Overstory for Our Time
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American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 799–807.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Rachel Adams Abstract Care is the intimate and necessary labor required to sustain those who are dependent, but it is also about acting in ways that sustain other species and the lives of strangers distant in time and space. The COVID-19 pandemic shines a spotlight on the vulnerabilities and gaps...
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Rest Cure versus Rest Tour: The Queer Routes of White Women’s Health
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American Literature (2025) 97 (1): 93–120.
Published: 01 March 2025
... experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic, and as we continue to grapple with ongoing threats to women’s health and reproductive freedom. [email protected] Copyright © 2025 by Duke University Press 2025 rest cure queer feminist infrastructures Women’s Rest Tour Association (WRTA) Charlotte...
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Who Counts? Old Age in COVID Times
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American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 745–757.
Published: 01 December 2020
... (Baker 2020 ) and to “the COVID-19” (Hunter 2020 ) more generally. 7 Explaining he was inspired by “a one-hundred-and-nine-year-old prayer warrior” at one of the corporation’s SNFs, he affirms, “our health comes from the Lord” and “we must count on hope and faith to carry us through this coronavirus...
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An Ethics Debate for the Ages: American Individualism and the Dilemma of the Healthy Carrier
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American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 737–743.
Published: 01 December 2020
... as having a long incubation period, this period is in fact so long, and the majority of the infected so mildly ill, that COVID-19 is necessarily a disease with many healthy carriers. In fact, diseases like this become pandemics much more readily than others. Highly virulent diseases such as the seasonal...
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American Literature (2024) 96 (2): 141–162.
Published: 01 June 2024
... that circulated in other nations. 3 Priscilla Wald and I (Altschuler) wrote about this in our essay “COVID-19 and the Language of Racism” ( 2021 ). 4 For a critique of the “virus of racism metaphor” that implicitly extends Mitchell’s argument, see Wald 2022 : 292–93. 5 For more...
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Makandal and Pandemic Knowledge: Literature, Fetish, and Health in the Plantationocene
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American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 723–735.
Published: 01 December 2020
... from their life worlds in the interest of extracting value from them. Yet as Brown ( 2020 ) concludes in her discussion of the COVID-19 pandemic, our methods of disentangling one species from another, which extend from scientific taxonomies to the plantation project, bear reconsideration if we...
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The Information Isolation Trope: Isolation, Infection, and Information Silos in Early American Literature
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American Literature (2024) 96 (3): 325–353.
Published: 01 September 2024
... to COVID-19 and the ways in which such information went viral, resonating with various hate groups. According to the Brennan Center for Justice, information silos contributed to election denial and fraud-related mis- and disinformation, stemming from candidates and the news sources from which they gathered...
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Announcement
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American Literature (2022) 94 (2): 381–382.
Published: 01 June 2022
... of recorded Black pain, the COVID-19 pandemic, the refugee crisis, and the opioid crisis have moved problems of pain and its representation to the fore. The moment is ripe to reevaluate pain in literary and cultural studies. Thirty-five years after its publication, Elaine Scarry’s The Body in Pain (1985...
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Plague Time (Again)
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American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 759–766.
Published: 01 December 2020
... narratives Pandemics alter our experience of time. We know this, after many months of COVID-19, unsure of when or whether our “normal” lives will resume, but we also sense intuitively, conditioned by our reading, that plague travels within or is somehow made comprehensible by recourse to temporal units...
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Racial Disintegration: Biomedical Futurity at the Environmental Limit
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American Literature (2021) 93 (3): 497–523.
Published: 01 September 2021
... whose “immortal” cervical cancer cells were harvested without her consent at Johns Hopkins in 1951. The first cells able to be kept alive indefinitely, HeLa led to countless scientific discoveries (including the polio and COVID-19 vaccines) that delivered untold millions to biopharma companies...
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American Literature (2021) 93 (4): 726–729.
Published: 01 December 2021
.... Pain is notoriously tricky. Pain is central to the human condition, but its very nature—at once biological, cultural, and social—slips easily from grasp. Recent events like the murder of George Floyd and, more broadly, the public spectacle of recorded Black pain, the COVID-19 pandemic, the refugee...
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American Literature (2022) 94 (1): 215–218.
Published: 01 March 2022
... and, more broadly, the public spectacle of recorded Black pain, the COVID-19 pandemic, the refugee crisis, and the opioid crisis have moved problems of pain and its representation to the fore. The moment is ripe to reevaluate pain in literary and cultural studies. Thirty-five years after its publication...
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