Alterità e inesperienza nell’opera di Don DeLillo

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dc.identifier	ECF_chapter_3699
dc.contributor.author	Cinquegrani Alessandro
dc.title	Alterità e inesperienza nell’opera di Don DeLillo
dc.type	Chapter
dc.language.iso	it
dc.description.abstract	Don DeLillo is one of the most important interpreters of the West. One of the key points of his work is the analysis of the effects of the “end of the history” (Fukuyama). The protagonist of Underworld says “I long for days of disorder”. History is represented in the first part of his works (Running Dog, White Noise) as Nazism and Hitler’s legacy, while later, in Cosmopolis and in Zero K, it is embodied by immigrant characters. This study analyes how these figures become symbolic images within the framework of the author’s thought.
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dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.issued	2020-04-30
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-396-0/alterita-e-inesperienza-nellopera-di-don-delillo/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-396-0/020
dc.identifier.issn	2610-8860
dc.identifier.eissn	2610-9387
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-397-7
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-396-0
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
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dc.peer-review	no
dc.subject	End of History
dc.subject	End of History
dc.subject	Migrants
dc.subject	Migrants
dc.subject	Violence
dc.subject	Violence

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Alterità e inesperienza nell’opera di Don DeLillo

Alessandro Cinquegrani Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia

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Don DeLillo is one of the most important interpreters of the West. One of the key points of his work is the analysis of the effects of the “end of the history” (Fukuyama). The protagonist of Underworld says “I long for days of disorder”. History is represented in the first part of his works (Running Dog, White Noise) as Nazism and Hitler’s legacy, while later, in Cosmopolis and in Zero K, it is embodied by immigrant characters. This study analyes how these figures become symbolic images within the framework of the author’s thought.

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Keywords: Violence • Migrants • End of History

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