Terrorism, Media, and the Ethics of Fiction: Transatlantic Perspectives on Don Delillo (Hardcover)

Introduction Philipp Schweighauser and Peter Schneck Memory Work after 9/11 1. The Wake of Terror: Don DeLillo's "In the Ruins of the Future," "Baader-Meinhof," and Falling Man Linda S. Kauffman 2. Grieving and Memory in Don DeLillo's Falling Man Silvia Caporale Bizzini 3. Collapsing Identities: The Representation and Imagination of the Terrorist in Falling Man Sascha Pohlmann Writers, Terrorists, and the Masses 4. 6,500 Weddings and 2,750 Funerals: Mao II, Falling Man, and the Mass Effect Mikko Keskinen 5. Influence and Self-Representation: Don DeLillo's Artists and Terrorists in Postmodern Mass Society Leif Grossinger 6. The Art of Terror--the Terror of Art: DeLillo's Still Life of 9/11, Giorgio Morandi, Gerhard Richter, and Performance Art Julia Apitzsch Don DeLillo and Johan Grimonprez 7. Grimonprez's Remix Eben Wood 8. Dial T for Terror: Don DeLillo's Mao II and Johan Grimonprez' Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y Martyn Colebrook Deathward and Other Plots 9. Terror, Asceticism, and Epigrammatic Writing in Don DeLillo's Fiction Paula Martin Salvan 10. The End of Resolution? Reflections on the Ethics of Closure in Don DeLillo's Detective Plots Philipp Schweighauser and Adrian S. Wisnicki The Ethics of Fiction 11. Slow Man, Dangling Man, Falling Man: Don DeLillo and the Ethics of Fiction Peter Boxall 12.Falling Man: Performing Fiction Marie-Christine Leps 13. "Mysterium tremendum et fascinans": Don DeLillo, Rudolf Otto, and the Search for Numinous Experience Peter Schneck Coda 14. The DeLillo Era: Literary Generations in the Postmodern Period David Cowart