Grief in Times of Corona (Envoi). (September 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Fowley, Cathy
• Other Names: Harris Times Annette MarkhamDan guest-editor.; Luka Mary Elizabeth (M.E.) guest-editor.
• Is Part Of: Qualitative inquiry. Volume 27:Number 7(2021)
• Page Start: 771
• Page End: 772
• Publication Date: 2021-09
• Subjects: chronotope -- poetry -- autoethnography -- COVID; Social sciences -- Methodology -- Periodicals; Social sciences -- Research -- Periodicals; 300.72
• DOI: 10.1177/1077800420960140
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1077-8004

Abstract

This autoethnographic poem tells of personal grief happening in a time of lockdown. It draws on the concept of chronotope, a discrete time and space unit, a parenthesis of sorts, which I have chosen to illustrate as a bubble. In our daily speech, we see bubbles as related to both time and space, now with the added meaning of close relationship of people, those who belong to the same COVID bubble. In this autoethnographic piece, relationships are mediated by technology which anchors our bubbles together, with multimodal links carrying affect and emotion.