Performing Identity in the Era of COVID-19

Herausgeber: O'Mahony, Lauren; Merchant, Melissa; Gairola, Rahul K

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Produktbeschreibung

This innovative volume compels readers to re-think the notions of performance, performing, and (non)performativity in the context of the COVID-19 global pandemic. It was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Intercultural Studies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 621g
• ISBN-13: 9781032514512
• ISBN-10: 1032514515
• Artikelnr.: 67680052

Autorenporträt

Lauren O'Mahony (PhD, FHEA) is Senior Lecturer in Communications at Murdoch University, Western Australia. Her research focuses on Australian women's literature as well as media analysis, media audiences, and creativity. Her research has been published in numerous high-quality journals and edited books. Rahul K. Gairola (PhD, Asia Research Centre Fellow) is The Krishna Somers Senior Lecturer in English and Postcolonial Literature at Murdoch University, Western Australia. He has internationally presented and published in reputable research forums for many years. He is Editor of the Routledge/Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) South Asian Book Series, and Area Editor for Oxford Bibliographies in Literary and Critical Theory. Melissa Merchant (PhD, SFHEA) is Academic Chair of English and Creative Arts at Murdoch University, Western Australia. Her recent research focuses on contemporary performativity. She has contributed to Journal of Intercultural Studies, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, The Seventeenth Century, and Outskirts, and a chapter in The Routledge Companion to Disability and the Media. Simon Order (M.Sc, PhD) is currently an Adjunct Senior Lecturer at Murdoch University, Western Australia, who specialises in radio studies and music technology studies. His research has recently become more diverse with work focusing on post-apocalyptic television studies and universal design for online learning events and social mobility in Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction-Viral Stagings Across the Globe: Performing Identity in the
Era of COVID-19 PART I 'Acting Out': Framing Language and Performance Today
2. Revisiting Manhattan Music in the Time of COVID-19: Body Politics,
Anti-Asian Racism and Negotiation of Ethnic Identity 3. Reclaiming
Everydayness and Japanese Cultural Routines in Animal Crossing: New
Horizons 4. Muslim Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic in Western Sydney:
Understanding the Role of Community-Specific Communication Infrastructure
5. Standing-Out and Fitting-In: The Acoustic-Space of Extemporised Speech
PART II Enacting the Race, Gender, and Sexuality of COVID-19 6. Networks of
Alterity in Syndemic Times: Sociodigital Media Controversy Around Racism in
Mexico 7. Hope, Performative Diversity and Re-production: Hamilton and
COVID-Era Politics 8. Enby in the Time of COVID-19: An Autoethnographic
Reflection on Performing Non-binary Identity during Lockdown 9. Bodies
of/at Work: How Women of Colour Experienced Their Workplaces and Have Been
Expected to 'Perform' during the COVID-19 Pandemic PART III Pandemic
Performing and the Digital Milieu 10. Egyptian Baladi, Australian Style in
Lockdown: Seeking Connection 11. Zoom Face: Self-surveillance, Performance
and Display 12. Viral Assemblages and Witnessing Extraordinary Times: Queer
Patchworks of Intimacy, Precarity and Affect in an Indian City 13. Digital
Literary Creative Practice and COVID-19 14. The Reshaping of Home, Privacy
and Identity during a Pandemic. Afterword