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Terrorism, Media, and the Ethics of Fiction - Transatlantic Perspectives on Don DeLillo (Paperback, Nippod Ed)
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In his novel Mao II, Don DeLillo lets his protagonist say, 'Years
ago I used to think it was possible for a novelist to alter the
inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunmen have taken
that territory. They make raids on human consciousness.' DeLillo
suggests that while the collective imagination of the past was
guided by the creative order of narrative fictions, our
contemporary fantasies and anxieties are directed by the endless
narratives of war and terror relayed by the mass media. To take
DeLillo's literary reflections on media, terrorism, and literature
seriously means to engage with the ethical implications of his
media critique.
This book departs from existing works on DeLillo not only through
its focus on the function of literature as public discourse in
culture, but also in its decidedly transatlantic perspective.
Bringing together prominent DeLillo scholars in Europe and in the
US, it is the first critical book on DeLillo to position his work
in a transatlantic context.
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