Being human during COVID / / Kristin Ann Hass, editor.

• TeilnehmendeR: Hass, Kristin Ann, 1965-
• Place / Publishing House: Ann Arbor, Michigan : : University of Michigan Press,, 2021.; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Michigan humanities collaboratory
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (483 p.)
• Other title: Introduction: Living with the virus that knows how we see each other /; naming --; "This virus has no eyes: Telling stories in the land of monsters /; Facing our pandemic /; Living on loss of privileges: What we learned in prison /; Not even past: Archiving 2020 in real time /; Waiting --; Waiting = death: Covid-19, the struggle for racial justice, and the aids pandemic /; Buddhism, the pandemic, and the demise of the future tense /; Covid diary: Hands, nets, and other devices /; Social distances in between: Excerpts from my Covid-19 diaries /; Grieving --; Grief and the importance of real things during Covid-19 /; Looking backward in order to look forward: Lessons about humanity and the humanities from the plague at Athens /; Protests, prayers, and protections: Three visitations during covid-19 /; Soliloquous solipsism /; More waiting /; Finding home between the Vincent Chin case and Covid-19 /; Caged with the tiger king: The media business and the pandemic /; Prosthetics for right now /; Resisting --; Covid-19's attack on women and feminists' response: The pandemic, inequality, and activism /; The virus that kills twice: Covid-19 and domestic violence under governmental impunity in Nicaragua /; "Our steps come from long ago": Living histories of feminisms and the fight against Covid in Brazil /; Making sense of sex and gender differences in biomedical research on Covid-19 /; Digital encounters from an intersectional perspective: Black women in Argentina /; The media discourse on women-led countries in the Covid-19 pandemic: Using Germany as an example /; Coronavirus capitalism and the patriarchal pandemic in India: Why we need a "feminism for the 99%" that focuses on social reproduction /; Whose challenge is #ChallengeAccepted? Performative online activism during the Covid-19 pandemic and its erasures /; Covid-19.; Nigerian women and the fight for holistic policy /; Not waiting --; Covid-19 through an Asian American lens: Scapegoating, harassment, and the limits of the Asian American response /; The high stakes of blame: Medieval parallels to a modern crisis /; Unmuting voices in a pandemic: Linguistic profiling in a moment of crisis /; Quarantine rebellions: Performance innovation in the pandemic /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 0472902504
• Access: Open access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Kristin Ann Hass, editor.

Science has taken center stage during the COVID-19 crisis; scientists named and diagnosed the virus, traced its spread, and worked together to create a vaccine in record time. But while science made the headlines, the arts and humanities were critical in people's daily lives. As the world went into lockdown, literature, music, and media became crucial means of connection, and historians reminded us of the resonance of the past as many of us heard for the first time about the 1918 influenza pandemic. As the twindemics of COVID-19 and racial injustice tore through the United States, a contested presidential race unfolded, which one candidate described as "a battle for the soul of the nation." Being Human during COVID documents 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. Over the course of the pandemic, the questions that occupy the humanities--about grieving and publics, the social contract and individual rights, racial formation and xenophobia, ideas of home and conceptions of gender, narrative and representations and power--have become shared life-or-death questions about how human societies work and how culture determines our collective fate. The contributors in this collection draw on scholarly expertise and lived experience to try to make sense of the unfamiliar present in works that range from traditional scholarly essays, to personal essays, to visual art projects. The resulting book is shot through with fear, dread, frustration, and prejudice, and, on a few occasions, with a thrilling sense of hope.