Huddled masses: The shock of Hart Island, New York
Human Remains and Violence
; 8(1):84-101, 2022.
Article
in English
| ProQuest Central | ID: covidwho-2302360
ABSTRACT
When drone footage emerged of New York City's COVID-19 casualties being buried by inmates in trenches on Hart Island, the images became a key symbol for the pandemic the suddenly soaring death toll, authorities' struggle to deal with overwhelming mortality and widespread fear of anonymous, isolated death. The images shocked New Yorkers, most of whom were unaware of Hart Island, though its cemetery operations are largely unchanged since it opened over 150 years ago, and about one million New Yorkers are buried there. How does Hart Island slip in and out of public knowledge for New Yorkers in a cycle of remembering and forgetting – and why is its rediscovery shocking? Perhaps the pandemic, understood as a spectacular event, reveals what has been there, though unrecognised, all along.
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English
Journal:
Human Remains and Violence
Year:
2022
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