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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.  \nDeLillo’s work offers an analysis of the ways in which the globalisation of capital, the end of the modernist avant-garde, and the expansion of 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 evermore 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.  \nThis 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. In reading DeLillo’s ambivalent engagement with globalisation, and with global terrorism, Peter Boxall suggests ways in which his writing might help us to think about the possibilities of fiction in the post-9/11 global context.  \nPeter Boxall is a senior lecturer in English Literature at the University of Sussex. He has published widely on modernist and postmodernist literature, in Europe and the USA.  \nRoutledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature  \nEdited by Susan Castillo University of Glasgow  \nIn an age of globalisation, it has become increasingly difficult to characterise the United States as culturally and linguistically homogenous and impermeable to influences from beyond its territorial borders.  \nThis series seeks to provide more cosmopolitan and transnational perspectiveson American literature, by offering:  \n• in-depth analyses of American writers and writing literature by internationally based scholars  \n• critical studies that foster awareness of the ways in which American writing engages with writers and cultures north and south of its territorial boundaries, as well as with the writers and cultures across the Atlantic and Pacific.  \nNew Woman Hybridities  \nFemininity, feminism, and international consumer culture, 1880–1930 Edited by Ann Heilmann and Margaret Beetham  \nDon DeLillo  \nThe possibility of fiction Peter Boxall  \nToni Morrison’s Beloved  \nPossible worlds Justine Tally  \nFictions of the Black Atlantic in American Foundational Literature  \nGesa Mackenthun  \nDon DeLillo  \nThe possibility of fiction  \nPeter Boxall  \nFirst published 2006 by Routledge  \n2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 4RN Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge  \n270 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016  \nThis edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2006.  \n“To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go [to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk](to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk).”  \nRoutledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2006 Peter Boxall  \nAll rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.  \nBritish Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data A catalog record for this book has been requested  \nISBN10: 0–415–30981–6 (hbk)  \nISBN10: 0–203–31542–1 (ebk)  \nISBN13: 978–0–415–30981–3 (hbk)  \nISBN13: 978–0–203–31542–2 (ebk)  \nFor Hannah, Ava and Laurie  \nContents  \nFigures ix  \nPreface and a","cbCaigW5nobxHvxG","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaigW5nobxHvxG","pdf",2194253,273,"English","# Introduction: the possibility of fiction\n# PART I\n## The 1970s\n## 1 Americana: Americana, End Zone, Great Jones Street\n## Silent with answers: early DeLillo and the canon\n## American Bethlehem: art as redemption\n## Cliché, tautology and the possibility of fiction\n## 2 The historical counterfunction: Ratner’s Star, Players, Running Dog\n# PART II\n## The 1980s\n## 3 Writing and apostasy: The Names\n## 4 Death and the avant-garde: White Noise\n## 5 Becoming historical: Libra\n# PART III\n## The 1990s\n## 6 Terrorism and globalisation: Mao II\n## 7 The work of death: Underworld\n## CODA\n## Ground Zero\n# The body of history: The Body Artist, Cosmopolis\n# Notes\n# Index","[{\"question\":\"What major historical focus shapes the book’s reading of DeLillo?\",\"answer\":\"The book reads DeLillo’s oeuvre as it develops from the end of the Second World War and then, in particular, in light of 9/11 and the post-9/11 global power relations.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the book connect globalisation to changes in DeLillo’s fiction?\",\"answer\":\"It examines how the globalisation of capital, the end of the modernist avant-garde, and expanding US military and economic power transform the production of fiction.\"},{\"question\":\"What tension does the book identify regarding the writer as social critic?\",\"answer\":\"It argues that the writer as a social critic who helps people “think and see” is threatened by new mass communication forms and by advanced surveillance and control, while DeLillo’s writing also develops ways fiction might persist under new global conditions.\"}]","The possibility of fiction - read online free | PDF",1789989315,420]