The Power of Horror: Abject Art and Terrorism in Don DeLillo’s Falling Man Kelsie Donnelly Abstract This paper argues that Don DeLillo’s 2007 novel, Falling Man, engages with abject art to disrupt the pre-existing systems of signification and dualistic rhetoric that characterized state and media responses to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. […]
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