The New Normal
Trauma, Biopolitics and Visuality After 9/11
1st Edition
Published on 30. April 2021
240 pages
978-93-90077-45-8 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New Delhi
India
Target group
College/higher education
ISBN-13
978-93-90077-45-8 (9789390077458)
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04/2021
Bloomsbury Academic India
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Person
Swatie teaches at Lady Shri Ram College for Women, University of Delhi. She is interested in various aspects of research, such as Violence Studies, Memory and Trauma Theory, Literary and Cultural Theory as well as 21st-century American Studies.
Content
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
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
