DeLillo's writing has been concerned, from its inception, with
thinking about how fiction has developed from the end of the Second
World War. This book reads the whole of Don DeLillo's oeuvre to
date - from Americana to Cosmopolis - and asks how far his writing
can be thought of as an enactment of the possibilities of literary
fiction in contemporary global culture.
DeLillo's work offers an analysis of the ways in which the
globalization of capital, the end of the modernist avant-garde, and
the expansion of the US military and economic power have
transformed the production of fiction. The writer as a social
critic, as a figure who helps us to 'think and see', is under
threat, in DeLillo's writing from new forms of mass communication,
and ever more advanced modes of surveillance and control. But if
his writing charts the disappearance of critical fiction, then it
also develops new forms in which fiction might persist under new
global conditions.
This is the first book to offer a reading of DeLillo's complete
oeuvre in the light of 9/11, and of the new global power relations
that have come about in the wake of the attacks. DeLillo's writing
offers one of the most subtle and powerful ways of thinking about
globalization and global terrorism. Don DeLillo suggest ways in
which his writing might help us to think about the possibilities of
fiction in the post 9/11 global context.
General
| Imprint: |
Routledge
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Series: |
Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature |
| Release date: |
April 2006 |
| First published: |
2004 |
| Authors: |
Peter Boxall
|
| Dimensions: |
234 x 156 x 20mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Hardcover
|
| Pages: |
258 |
| Edition: |
annotated edition |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-415-30981-3 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Language & Literature >
Literature: history & criticism >
General
Promotions
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| LSN: |
0-415-30981-6 |
| Barcode: |
9780415309813 |
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