Don DeLillo after the Millennium

Jacqueline A. Zubeck is associate professor of English at the College of Mount Saint Vincent.

Don DeLillo after the Millennium: Currents and Currencies examines all the author's work published in the 21st century: The Body Artist, Cosmopolis, Falling Man, Point Omega, and Zero K, the plays Love-Lies-Bleeding and The Word for Snow, and the short stories in The Angel Esmeralda. What topic doesn't DeLillo tackle? Cyber-capital and currency markets, ontology and intelligence, global warming and cryogenics, Don DeLillo continues to ponder the significance of present cultural currents and to anticipate the waves of the future. Performance art and ethics, drama and euthanasia, space studies and the constrictions of time, DeLillo perspicaciously reads our culture, giving voice to the rhythms of our vernacular and diction. Rich and resonant, his work is so multifaceted in its attention that it accommodates a wide variety of critical approaches while its fine and filigreed prose commends him to a poetic appreciation as well. Don DeLillo after the Millennium brings together an international cast of scholars who examine DeLillo's work from many critical perspectives, exploring the astonishing output of an author who continues to tell our stories and show us ourselves.

Introduction - "The Word for Currency" - Jacqueline A. ZubeckPart 1 - "Collateral Crisis"Chapter 1 - "Collateral Crisis: Don DeLillo's Critique of Cyber-Capital" - Matt KavanaghChapter 2 - "The Currency of DeLillo's Cosmopolis" - Mark OsteenPart 2 - "Here and Gone"Chapter 3 - "Here and Gone: Point Omega's Extraordinary Rendition" - Jesse KavadloChapter 4 - "Place as Active Receptacle in Don DeLillo's The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories" - Elise MartucciChapter 5 - "Mourning Becomes Electric: The Body Artist & Falling Man" - Jacqueline A. ZubeckPart 3 - "Ontological Crossings"Chapter 6 - "Love-Lies-Bleeding Self-Portrait of the Artist as a Dying Man" - Graley HerrenChapter 7 - "'The art, the artist, the landscape, the sky':Ontological Crossings in Love-Lies-Bleeding" - Randy LaistPart 4 - "Time, time, time"Chapter 8 - "Don DeLillo, the Contemporary Novel, and the End of Secular Time" - Scott DillChapter 9 - "Cinematic Time, Geologic Time, Narrative Time" - Majiek MaslowskiPart 5 - "Poetics of Survival"Chapter 10 - "The Rough Shape of a Cross:" Chiastic Events in Don DeLillo's "Baader-Meinhof" - Karim DaanouneChapter 11 - "DeLillo's Poetics of Survival: A Case Study" - Jennifer L. Vala