Offering a comprehensive analysis of the post-1990 fiction of one of America's most respected writers and cultural critics, this title focuses on three of Don DeLillo's most recent novels - "Mao II", "Underworld", and "Falling Man" - that span pivotal moments in history: the end of the Cold War, the millennium, and 9/11.
A collection of original, stimulating interpretations of key texts by Don DeLillo, designed for students and edited and written by leading scholars in the field. The book offers new perspectives on two of the most important pre-millennial novels by any American writer
Mao II and
Underworld and the first extended discussions of
Falling Man, DeLillo's exploration of 9/11 and its aftermath.An American Studies approach to the texts brings together both established DeLillo scholars and other academics whose interdisciplinary methodologies drawn from history, ethnic studies, new economic criticism, women's studies, art history, and urban studies shed new light on DeLillo's work and demonstrate its wide-ranging significance in contemporary American culture.
Introduction: Don DeLillo and the Dream Release Stacey Olster PART I: Mao II Introduction 1. Delphic DeLillo: Mao II and Millennial Dread, David Cowart 2. Mao II, and the New World Order, Peter Knight 3. Mao II and Mixed Media, Laura Barrett PART II: Underworld Introduction 4. Underworld, Memory, and the Recycling of Cold War Narrative, Thomas Hill Schaub 5. Underworld and the Architecture of Urban Space, David L. Pike 6. Underworld, Ethnicity, and Found Object Art: Reason and Revelation, Josephine Gattuso Hendin PART III. Falling Man Introduction 7. Global Horizons in Falling Man, John Carlos Rowe 8. Bodies in Rest and Motion in Falling Man, Linda S. Kauffman Notes on Contributors Further Reading Index
This is a beautifully coherent collection of essays on DeLillo's three most important recent novels. It is also much more than that. The volume reflects on, tells us much about, and revises views of, DeLillo's entire oeuvre, American literature and culture broadly, modernist and postmodernist theory, and the other arts (including photography, performance art, film). Anyone with any interest in contemporary culture should know this book. Led by the level-setting eloquent and erudite Olster, the contributors comprise the most exciting scholars in American literary and cultural studies today. Fittingly for a volume on DeLillo, reading it you will never forget that these are people who can write. J.D. Prosser, Reader in Humanities, School of English, University of Leeds, UK
Stacey Olster is Professor of English at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA. She is the author of Reminiscence and Re-Creation in Contemporary American Fiction (1989) and The Trash Phenomenon: Contemporary Literature, Popular Culture, and the Making of the American Century (2003), and the editor of The Cambridge Companion to John Updike (2006). Stacey Olster is Professor of English at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA.
Über den Autor
Stacey Olster is Professor of English at the State University of Stony Brook, USA. She is the author of Reminiscence and Re-Creation in Contemporary American Fiction (1989) and The Trash Phenomenon: Contemporary Literature, Popular Culture, and the Making of the American Century (2003), and the editor of The Cambridge Companion to John Updike (2006).
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction; PART I: Mao II; Introduction; 1. Mao II, Apocalypse (When?), and Millennial Frenzy David Cowart; 2. Mao II, and the New Economic World Order, Peter Knight; 3. Mao II and Mixed Media, Laura Barrett; PART II: Underworld; Introduction; 4. Underworld and the End of the Cold War Narrative, Thomas Hill Schaub; 5. Underworld and the Architecture of Urban Space, David L. Pike; 6. Underworld, Ethnicity, and Outsider Art Josephine Gattuso Hendin; PART III. Falling Man; Introduction; 7. Falling Man and the Novel of Terrorism, John Carlos Rowe; 8. Falling Man, Trauma, and the Gendered Response, Linda Kauffman; 9. Falling Man and Performance Art, John N. Duvall; Notes on Contributors; Further Reading; Index.
Klappentext
A collection of original, stimulating interpretations of key texts by Don DeLillo, designed for students and edited and written by leading scholars in the field.
