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Project
Historicizing Post-‐9/11 American Literature and Criticism through Biopolitics and a Genealogy of Statelessness
This project will demonstrate how a genealogy of
statelessness can be used as a framework to examine previously unexplored links between pre-‐and post-‐9/11 American literature.
It will expose the enduring significance of the concept of ‘bare life’ in American culture by
comparing the wandering protagonist from the
9/11 canon with earlier historical and aesthetic
representations of statelessness.
Date:1 Oct 2014 → 31 Dec 2018
Keywords:European modernism, statelessness, Jewish-American literature, biopolitcs, 9/11, American literature, African-American literature
Disciplines:Other languages and literary studies, Theory and methodology of linguistics, Literary studies, Language studies, Theory and methodology of language studies, Theory and methodology of literary studies