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