Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.15291/sic/2.14.lc.4
Navigating the Uncanny Spaces: Spatial Relations in Don DeLillo’s Falling Man
Gaj Tomaš
; University of Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
Following the twentieth-century’s spatial turn in literary and cultural studies, this paper examines spaces and spatiality in Don DeLillo’s novel Falling Man, a seminal fictional response to the most traumatic (spatial) event in the USA at the turn of the century. Starting from Robert T. Tally Jr.’s thesis that authors are cartographers, I analyze how DeLillo acts as a mapper of the post-9/11 space. By exploring the depictions of the altered spatial landscape DeLillo creates, and the world he thrusts his characters into, I examine the intricate relationship between space and identity. Ultimately, I argue that the loss of a familiar and dependable space creates unfamiliar spaces the characters struggle to navigate.
Keywords
space, spatiality, DeLillo, Falling Man, 9/11, post-9/11 literature
Hrčak ID:
317981
URI
Publication date:
17.6.2024.
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