Don DeLillo: Mao II / Underworld / Falling Man. Ed. Stacey Olster

The latest volume of the Continuum Studies in Contemporary North American Fiction is dedicated to three of the most influential recent novels written by Don DeLillo: Mao II, Underworld and Falling Man. These novels are set in pivotal moments of recent history, the end of the Cold War, the millennium...

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Published inEuropean Journal of American Studies
Main Author Tseti, Angeliki
Format Journal Article Book Review
LanguageEnglish
Published London European Association for American Studies 03.10.2011
The European Association for American Studies (EAAS)
Subjects
Aesthetics
American culture
Artists
Cold War
Culture
DeLillo, Don
Essays
Investigations
Modernism
Postmodernism
Terrorism
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Summary:The latest volume of the Continuum Studies in Contemporary North American Fiction is dedicated to three of the most influential recent novels written by Don DeLillo: Mao II, Underworld and Falling Man. These novels are set in pivotal moments of recent history, the end of the Cold War, the millennium and 9/11 and, so, offer fertile ground for the investigation of themes, such as terrorism, consumerism and globalism, that are dominant in the author’s entire oeuvre; what is more, the contributio...
ISSN:1991-9336
1991-9336
DOI:10.4000/ejas.9387