New Normal

"This book explores the relation between the subject and the state after the events of 9/11. 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 atrocity 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, the book asks what the relation between the state and those it expels from its citizenry is. The book makes a special mention of sites of incarceration such as Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib as 9/11 phenomena. With reference to sources as diverse as 9/11 poetry, political presidential speeches, journalistic accounts, atrocity photographs, and theories of trauma, biopolitics, and visuality, the book argues for the presence of a new normal."--