Pandemic Metaphors

Abstract

16 Raza Kolb, Epidemic Empire, 168-69. 17 Raza Kolb, Epidemic Empire, 10. 18 Raza Kolb, Epidemic Empire, 11. The APA release, for instance, shifts unobtrusively from using "racism pandemic" to describe the pervasiveness of racist violence against Black bodies in the United States to enumerating the health consequences of the pandemic on Black bodies. Keywords: racism;COVID;metaphors EN racism COVID metaphors 278 283 6 04/28/22 20220401 NES 220401 In her formidable I Epidemic Empire i , Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb examines metaphors of contagion and the contagion of metaphors. [Extracted from the article] Copyright of Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry is the property of Cambridge University Press and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full . (Copyright applies to all s.)