The American Nightmare: Don De Lillo’s Falling Man and Cormac Mc Carthy’s The Road presents an extensive analysis of two novels by the two most prominent contemporary American writers.The book searches into the stylistic and linguistic complexities of those two post-9/11 novels and explores the ways in which they respond to the public discourse produced in the aftermath of the event. Szalan’s reading of the texts offer valuable insights into the inscription of ideology in literary works which simultaneously reinstate and resist its hegemony.
Circa l’autore
zden Szalan (ph.D. Essex) is Associate Professor at the Department of American Culture and Literature at Istanbul University. She has worked in the past as a journalist and film critic and directed several theatrical performances. She is the author of The Staged Encounter: Contemporary Feminism and Women’s Drama (Stuttgart: ibidem-Verlag, 2004) and The Stage in the Text: Essays on American Drama (Istanbul:Okuyanus, 2006). She has contributed chapters to books on literary theory and published articles on English, American and Turkish Literature. She lives in Istanbul, the city she loves passionately, and when she feels exhausted she also dreams of a life of retirement on the Aegean coast.