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Chapter 5 - The Cold War

The Rules, Norms, Games, and Professions of DeLillo’s Cold War

from Part II - History and Politics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 May 2022

By
Alan Nadel
Edited by
Jesse Kavadlo
Jesse Kavadlo
Affiliation:
Maryville University of Saint Louis, Missouri
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Summary

Examining the trajectories of paranoia and apocalypse in the matrix of Cold War dichotomies throughout DeLillo’s opus, this chapter examines DeLillo's emphasis on class and professions in relation to his Cold War fiction.

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Don DeLilloCold Warhistoryatomic ageUnderworldEnd Zone
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Don DeLillo In Context , pp. 49 - 57
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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Nadel, Alan. “God’s Law and the Wide Screen: The Ten Commandments as Cold War ‘Epic’.” PMLA, May 1993: 415–30.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Osteen, Mark. “Against the End: Asceticism and Apocalypse in Don DeLillo’s End Zone.” Papers in Language and Literature, 26. 1990: 143–63.Google Scholar

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