Full Description
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. Given these multi-faceted ways of thinking about "performance" and its complicated manifestations throughout the pandemic, this volume is organised into umbrella topics that focus on three of the most important aspects of identity for cultural and intercultural studies in this historical moment: language; race/gender/sexuality; and the digital world. In critically re-thinking the meaning of "performance" in the era of COVID-19, contributors first explore how language is differently staged in the context of the global pandemic, compelling us to normalise an entirely new verbal lexicon. Second, they survey the pandemic's disturbing impact on socio-political identities rooted in race, class, gender, and sexuality. Third, contributors examine how the digital milieu compels us to reorient the inside/outside binary with respect to multilingual subjects, those living with disability, those delivering staged performances, and even corresponding audiences.
Together, these diverse voices constitute a powerful chorus that rigorously excavates the hidden impacts of the global pandemic on how we have changed the ways in which we perform identity throughout a viral crisis. This volume is thus a timely asset for all readers interested in identity studies, performance studies, digital and technology studies, language studies, global studies, and COVID-19 studies. It was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Intercultural Studies.
Contents
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
