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...Kacy Dowd Tillman Abstract Many early American novels feature at least one character who becomes physically isolated, is restricted access to communication, becomes ill, spreads their sickness, and then either dies or becomes permanently disabled. This repeated pattern of isolation, infection...

...-bent horned warrior beetles with armored shells’’ and ‘‘divebomber cockroaches’’ [100]) but also as the source of poten- tially communicable diseases. According to the ‘‘National Institute of Health insects ‘‘infect children with a mysterious fever that liter- A Queer...

... the immunitary unconscious. Haraway ( 1991 : 223) expands on the racial logic encrypted in fears of the jungle, arguing that attendant on the white “penetration of the world,” “the ‘colored’ body of the colonized” became “the dark source of infection . . . overwhelming white[ness] with its decadent emanations...

..., and other contagions. Diseases such as malaria afflicted American troops stationed in the South Pacific during World War II, and public health films were made to address the problem (Fedunkiw 2003 : 1049). As these films attempted to train soldiers to avoid infection, they deployed racialized images...

... of creating unnecessary fear for some populations, especially in Asia which was worst affected by the SARS outbreak in 2003” (WHO n.d. ). As the radius of COVID-19 infections widened and the number of cases increased beyond SARS, comparisons were drawn with other pandemics: the 1918–19 influenza pandemic...

... age in a pandemic discloses a harrowing paradox at the core of US society: many older adults in the United States are at once existentially isolated and recklessly exposed to the dangers of infection. Thinking with old age in a pandemic makes visible the transformations that many who are not older...

... to serve white pleasure. Now we are facing the consequences of this in the weapons we have at our disposal for combatting the spread of a novel infection. We can’t escape the fact that for some of us to stay home, others must deliver food, ring up orders at the cash register, stock toilet paper, and so...

... 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...

... of a fever-infected corpse and has therefore been exposed to the disease. This death scene, which Brown American Literature, Volume 76, Number 3, September 2004. Copyright © 2004 by Duke University Press. 438 American Literature returned to and replayed more extensively in his novel Ormond (1799...

...,” and “influence how both scientists and the lay public understand the nature and consequences of infection, how they imagine the threat, and why they react so fearfully to some disease outbreaks and not others at least as dangerous and pressing.” In these terms, the work of gothic global health was mixed. On one...

... concluded his 1947 novel La Peste , is that the plague “never dies or disappears for good” (Camus 1991 : 308). The rats will reassemble. This sense of history’s permeability and even susceptibility to infection persists in more recent plague literature. “History is about to crack wide open” (Kushner 1993...

... that appear now are only belated evidence of infections that happened days or weeks ago. Like the systems described in The Overstory , the fact that viral networks operate on scales more microscopic and immense than the human does not make human activity, or the stories of individual persons, irrelevant...

... to infect both queer and race theory to announce a new field of inquiry, in which scholars will be asked to move beyond the now easy task of locating hidden homoeroticism and opaque racialism and toward an understanding...

... to infect both queer and race theory to announce a new field of inquiry, in which scholars will be asked to move beyond the now easy task of locating hidden homoeroticism and opaque racialism and toward an understanding...

... misshapen by forceps? We read that Jack infected Bess with gonorrhea, was madly jealous of Bess’s relationship with Charles Milner, and was repeat- edly unfaithful to Charmian. How does Stasz know these things, given...

...). The story is about a man who refuses to believe what he reads in the newspaper. In the end, it is his incredulity that does him in, something Ogden sees as intrinsic to Poe’s use of fiction to “infect” rather than “inoculate” his readers with credulity (131). The mind control that is anticipated...

...’ enemies and even its friends (the most obvious example being the excesses of Joseph McCarthy’s House Un-American Activities Committee), that needed to be unmasked and exposed in order that it be defeated, Castiglia suggests that this same hermeneutics took over on the cultural left, where it infected...

... disease, a cultural ‘‘habitus or a genetic condition, the nar- rative describes Vandover’s contact with the prostitute-cum-mannish- lesbian within each paradigm.37 On one hand, Vandover is ‘‘infected’’ with sexual depravity by her in a model closely resembling theories concerning the transmission...

..., the terrain is often minute and biological, as fears of contagion and infection mark “the body as a transitional theater of imperial warfare” (1). The microscopic realm nonetheless resounds with global implications that promote “a medicalized state of war” (72). Focusing on pathological metaphors festering...

.... These cooperative horror first-person shooter action games have up to four players control survivors who are immune to a virus that has turned people into zombie-like “infected” creatures. This game enables infinite replay not because of its familiar narrative premise but because of a dynamic underlying system...