Panorama of the Pandemic

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. Steven S George is a Ph.D. Scholar at the Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia, India. Sananda Roy is currently working as a Guest Lecturer at Gargi College, University of Delhi, India.

Introduction PANDEMIC PANORAMAS: NARRATIVES IN THE TIME OF CONTAGION 1. Epidemic, Oriental Anxiety, and Plague Poetics in Mary Shelley’s The Last Man 2. Thy will be Done: Examining the Metaphysics of the Graphic Renditions of Pandemics 3. ‘Performance’ of Survival in a Post-apocalyptic World: Examining Art in Emily St. Mandel’s Station Eleven PHILOSOPHIZING THE PANDEMIC: AFFECT, CRITIQUE AND LANGUAGE 4. Last Word: The Linguistic Response to Epidemics 5. “My Race is not My Virus”: Affective Racial Algorithms during Covid-19 Pandemic 6. Deathly Games: Playing in the Pandemic PANDEMIC TRANSITIONS: FROM PHYSICAL TO VIRTUAL 7. Teaching (in) Pandemic: Lessons Lost, Lessons Learned 8. Cyber in the Pandemic Art 9. Digital Theatre: The Personal is Political PUNCTUATING THE PANDEMIC: THE AUDIO-VISUAL EXPRESSIONS IN COVID-19 10. Burning Hope: Caste and Pandemic in Nagraj Manjule’s Vaikunth 11. “Shared Solitude”: Reframing Family Portraits in the Time of Pandemic 12. Lived through Covid-19 Pandemic: Understanding Lived Experience Through Haryanvi Folk Songs