Players, Mao II and Falling man: three versions of terror

Authors

  • Giséle Manganelli Fernandes UNESP – Universidade Estadual Paulista. Instituto de Biociências, Letras e Ciências Exatas. Departamento de Letras Modernas – São José do Rio Preto – SP – Brasil.
  • Márcia Corrêa de Oliveira Mariano UNESP – Universidade Estadual Paulista. Instituto de Biociências, Letras e Ciências Exatas – São José do Rio Preto – SP – Brasil.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.58943/irl.v0i37.5706

Keywords:

Don DeLillo, Terrorism, Capitalism, Literature and history,

Abstract

This paper aims at analyzing the different approaches to terror in the novels Players (1977), Mao II (1991) and Falling Man (2007), by the American writer Don DeLillo. In Players, terror is shown as something attractive and exciting to a character who leads a very tedious personal and professional life; in Mao II, it is connected to the kidnapping of a poet and the text brings up relevant debates focusing on the contrast related to the power of novelists and terrorists in society; and in Falling Man, the author reviews the tragedy of September 11, in an attempt to try to understand the reasons why the attacks happened. The novels show terrorist actions connected to historical processes and also to the present form of capitalism and globalization. Theoretical texts by Bauman (1998), Eagleton (2005), Freitas (1989), Fraser (2000) will be used to discuss the issues addressed in this paper.

Author Biographies

Giséle Manganelli Fernandes, UNESP – Universidade Estadual Paulista. Instituto de Biociências, Letras e Ciências Exatas. Departamento de Letras Modernas – São José do Rio Preto – SP – Brasil.

Professor Adjunto II

Departamento de Letras Modernas

Área de Inglês

Literatura Norte-Americana

Márcia Corrêa de Oliveira Mariano, UNESP – Universidade Estadual Paulista. Instituto de Biociências, Letras e Ciências Exatas – São José do Rio Preto – SP – Brasil.

Mestre em Letras - PPG-Letras - IBILCE/UNESP

Aprovada no processo seletivo 2013 para o Doutorado -Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras -IBILCE/UNESP.

Published

16/04/2014

Issue

Section

Literatures in english language