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