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As The Two Towers Fell - En analyse av Don DeLillos terrorverden i Mao II og Falling Man

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Author

  • Johanne Svendsen Rognlien

Summary, in English

I have chosen in my Bachelor thesis to analyze how terror and terror actions are described in the contemporary American writer Don DeLillo’s books, Mao II and Falling Man. The French theorist, Jean Baudrillard’s thoughts about the identity of USA, globalization and terrorism will be applied to what I find in DeLillo’s books. I will be discussing in which way Don DeLillo examine and explain terrorism and literature in accordance with the attacks on September 11th, 2001. I have chosen to examine different motives in two of his books, Mao II written in 1991 and Falling Man, written in 2007 and see if there is any dissimilarity in the way terrorism is presented before and after the attacks in 2001. I have found a lot of similarities between the books, which is also common for the remaining of DeLillo’s authorship. Nevertheless, the critic against the Western world and the spineless authors is stronger in Mao II. Falling Man works, roughly speaking, as a book for remembrance of the events in 2001 and it try to create meaning in a time when USA, and the rest of the world, finds themselves in a new and chaotic world situation.

Publishing year

2013

Language

Norwegian

Document type

Student publication for Bachelor's degree

Topic

  • Languages and Literatures

Keywords

  • Don DeLillo
  • Jean Baudrillard
  • Falling Man
  • Mao II
  • Terrorism
  • Hyperreality
  • Literature analysis

Supervisor

  • Elisabeth Friis