Swatie

The New Normal (eBook, ePUB)

Trauma, Biopolitics and Visuality after 9/11

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The New Normal explores the relation between the subject and the state after the events of 9/11 that left the world stunned. It looks at this relation through the lens of trauma for the mind, biopolitics for the body and visuality for the body politic. This interpretive frame helps examine how the 9/11 violence created a moment where the mind, body and body politic could be redefined after 9/11. In an important theoretical intervention into 21st-century American Studies, it asks what the relation between the state and those it expels from its citizenry is. It makes a special mention of sites of incarceration such as Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib as 9/11 phenomena. While referring to sources as diverse as 9/11 poetry, political and presidential speeches, journalistic accounts, atrocity photographs, and theories of trauma, biopolitics and visuality, the book argues for the presence of a new normal.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9789390077311
• Artikelnr.: 61610034

Autorenporträt

Swatie, is Assistant Professor at Lady Sriram College, University of Delhi.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction: After 9/11
Trauma
Chapter 1: In the Shadow of Traumatisability
Chapter 2: Traumatic Time, Traumatic Poetics
Chapter 3: Trauma, Torture, Text
Biopolitics
Chapter 4: The Biopolitical Subject of Torture
Chapter 5: Biopolitics at Guantanamo Bay
Chapter 6: Tortured Poetics and Shared Humanity: Poems from Guantanamo and
9/11 poetry
Visuality
Chapter 7: Visuality and 9/11
Chapter 8: 'Watching' Ghosts of Abu Ghraib and Standard Operating Procedure
Conclusion: The New Normal
Afterword
Bibliography
Index