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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
Research disciplines
  • Humanities
    • 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
 
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.