Panorama of the Pandemic

This volume provides a multi-nuanced analysis of the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on various aspects of human existence, encompassing societal, economic, and inter-relational dimensions.

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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.

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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 LANGUAGE4. Last Word: The Linguistic Response to Epidemics5. "My Race is not My Virus": Affective Racial Algorithms during Covid-19 Pandemic6. Deathly Games: Playing in the PandemicPANDEMIC TRANSITIONS: FROM PHYSICAL TO VIRTUAL7. Teaching (in) Pandemic: Lessons Lost, Lessons Learned8. Cyber in the Pandemic Art9. Digital Theatre: The Personal is PoliticalPUNCTUATING THE PANDEMIC: THE AUDIO-VISUAL EXPRESSIONS IN COVID-1910. 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