English, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA
Med Humanit. 2022 Jun;48(2):211-220. doi: 10.1136/medhum-2021-012258. Epub 2022 May 18.
The essay outlines the ways in which narrative approaches to COVID-19 can draw on imaginative literature and critical oral history to resist the 'closure' often offered by cultural representations of epidemics. To support this goal, it analyses science and speculative fiction by Alejandro Morales and Tananarive Due in terms of how these works create alternative temporalities, which undermine colonial and racist medical discourse. The essay then examines a new archive of emerging autobiographical illness narratives, namely online Facebook posts and oral history samples by 'long COVID' survivors, for their alternate temporalities of illness.
这篇文章概述了叙事方法应对 COVID-19 的途径，这些方法可以借鉴想象文学和批判性口述历史，以抵抗流行文化中经常提供的“封闭性”。为了支持这一目标，它分析了亚历杭德罗·莫拉莱斯（Alejandro Morales）和塔娜纳夫·杜（Tananarive Due）的科学和科幻小说，以了解这些作品如何创造替代性的时间性，从而破坏殖民和种族主义的医学话语。然后，该文章考察了新兴自传体疾病叙事的新档案，即在线 Facebook 帖子和“长新冠”幸存者的口述历史样本，以了解其疾病的替代性时间性。
