Project

Historicizing Post-‐9/11 American Literature and Criticism through Biopolitics and a Genealogy of Statelessness

Code

01D00714

Duration

01 October 2014 → 31 December 2018

Funding

Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund

Promotor

Stef Craps

Fellow

Holly Brown

Research disciplines

Humanities and the arts
- Language studies
- Literary studies
- Theory and methodology of language studies
- Theory and methodology of linguistics
- Theory and methodology of literary studies
- Other languages and literary studies

Keywords

European modernism statelessness Jewish-American literature biopolitcs 9/11 American literature African-American literature 20th Century Contemporary Biopolitics English literature Literary studies

Project description

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.

Project

Historicizing Post-­‐9/11 American Literature and Criticism through Biopolitics and a Genealogy of Statelessness

Historicizing Post-‐9/11 American Literature and Criticism through Biopolitics and a Genealogy of Statelessness