1st Edition
Panorama of the Pandemic A Phenomenological Inquiry
Introduction
Simi Malhotra, Ruchi Nagpal, Steven S George, and Sananda Roy
PANDEMIC PANORAMAS: NARRATIVES IN THE TIME OF CONTAGION
1. Epidemic, Oriental Anxiety, and Plague Poetics in Mary Shelley’s The Last Man
Soumava Maiti
2. Thy will be Done: Examining the Metaphysics of the Graphic Renditions of Pandemics
Rashmi Sharma
3. ‘Performance’ of Survival in a Post-apocalyptic World: Examining Art in Emily St. Mandel’s Station Eleven
Indrani Das Gupta
PHILOSOPHIZING THE PANDEMIC: AFFECT, CRITIQUE AND LANGUAGE
4. Last Word: The Linguistic Response to Epidemics
Himanshu Balhara
5. “My Race is not My Virus”: Affective Racial Algorithms during Covid-19 Pandemic
Sayan Parial
6. Deathly Games: Playing in the Pandemic
Gaurav Kumar
PANDEMIC TRANSITIONS: FROM PHYSICAL TO VIRTUAL
7. Teaching (in) Pandemic: Lessons Lost, Lessons Learned
James S. Baumlin
8. Cyber in the Pandemic Art
Armeen Kaur Ahuja
9. Digital Theatre: The Personal is Political
Steven S George
PUNCTUATING THE PANDEMIC: THE AUDIO-VISUAL EXPRESSIONS IN COVID-19
10. Burning Hope: Caste and Pandemic in Nagraj Manjule’s Vaikunth
Saheli Biswas
11. “Shared Solitude”: Reframing Family Portraits in the Time of Pandemic
Sreerupa Bhattacharya
12. Lived through Covid-19 Pandemic: Understanding Lived Experience Through Haryanvi Folk Songs
Vasundhara Gautam
Biography
Simi Malhotra is Professor, Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi, India.
Ruchi Nagpal has earned her doctoral degree from the Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi, India.
Steven S. George is a Ph.D. scholar at the Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi, India.
Sananda Roy has earned her doctoral degree from the Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi, India.
