
The New Normal
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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.
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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
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