Ordinariness in Disaster: Rereading Brion’s “Story” During the Covid-19 Pandemic

In contexts of broad structural strain, humanistic psychology points to the deeply embodied, relational, and spatiotemporal nature of literary encounters by agents in history. Through heuristic inquiry, this essay examines thematic transformations of Rofel G. Brion’s Story (1997), an autobiographica...

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Main Author: Uyheng, Joshua
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Published: Archīum Ateneo 2021
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Online Access:https://archium.ateneo.edu/mathematics-faculty-pubs/193
https://ajol.ateneo.edu/paha/articles/535/6840
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Institution: Ateneo De Manila University
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Summary:In contexts of broad structural strain, humanistic psychology points to the deeply embodied, relational, and spatiotemporal nature of literary encounters by agents in history. Through heuristic inquiry, this essay examines thematic transformations of Rofel G. Brion’s Story (1997), an autobiographical collection of poetry, when reread during the COVID-19 pandemic. I reflect on selected poems to reconsider and reclaim themes of intimacy amid solitude through narrative affection, home in exile through connections of care, and possibilities for living in ordinary time.