Being human during COVID / / 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...

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Place / Publishing House:Ann Arbor, Michigan : : University of Michigan Press,, 2021.
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Michigan humanities collaboratory
Physical Description:1 online resource (483 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Living with the virus that knows how we see each other / Kristin Ann Hass
  • Part I. naming
  • "This virus has no eyes: Telling stories in the land of monsters / Christopher Matthews
  • Facing our pandemic / Sara Blair
  • Living on loss of privileges: What we learned in prison / Patrick Bates, Alexandra Friedman, Adam Kouraimi, Ashley Lucas, Sriram Papolu, and Cozine Welch
  • Not even past: Archiving 2020 in real time / Michelle McClellan and Aprille McKay
  • Part II. Waiting
  • Waiting = death: Covid-19, the struggle for racial justice, and the aids pandemic / David Caron
  • Buddhism, the pandemic, and the demise of the future tense / Donald Lopez
  • Covid diary: Hands, nets, and other devices / James Cogswell
  • Social distances in between: Excerpts from my Covid-19 diaries / Amal Hassan Fadlalla
  • Part III. Grieving
  • Grief and the importance of real things during Covid-19 / Suzanne L. Davis
  • Looking backward in order to look forward: Lessons about humanity and the humanities from the plague at Athens / Sara Forsdyke
  • Protests, prayers, and protections: Three visitations during covid-19 / William A. Calvo-Quiros
  • Soliloquous solipsism / Melanie Tanielian
  • Part IV. More waiting / Sheltering
  • Finding home between the Vincent Chin case and Covid-19 / Frances Kai-Hwa Wang
  • Caged with the tiger king: The media business and the pandemic / Daniel Herbert
  • Prosthetics for right now / Nick Tobier
  • Part V. Resisting
  • Covid-19's attack on women and feminists' response: The pandemic, inequality, and activism / Abigail J. Stewart
  • The virus that kills twice: Covid-19 and domestic violence under governmental impunity in Nicaragua / Eimeel Castillo
  • "Our steps come from long ago": Living histories of feminisms and the fight against Covid in Brazil / Sueann Caulfield
  • Making sense of sex and gender differences in biomedical research on Covid-19 / Abigail A. Dumes
  • Digital encounters from an intersectional perspective: Black women in Argentina / Marisol Fila
  • The media discourse on women-led countries in the Covid-19 pandemic: Using Germany as an example / Verena Klein
  • Coronavirus capitalism and the patriarchal pandemic in India: Why we need a "feminism for the 99%" that focuses on social reproduction / Jayati Lal
  • Whose challenge is #ChallengeAccepted? Performative online activism during the Covid-19 pandemic and its erasures / Ozge Savas
  • Covid-19. Nigerian women and the fight for holistic policy / Abiola Akiyode-Afolabi and Ronke Olawale
  • Part VI. Not waiting
  • Covid-19 through an Asian American lens: Scapegoating, harassment, and the limits of the Asian American response / Roland Hwang
  • The high stakes of blame: Medieval parallels to a modern crisis / David Patterson
  • Unmuting voices in a pandemic: Linguistic profiling in a moment of crisis / Nicholas Henriksen and Matthew Neubacher
  • Quarantine rebellions: Performance innovation in the pandemic / Anita Gonzalez.