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Social Trauma and the Question of Identity in Don Delillo's Falling Man
2020. urn:nbn:hr:142:826238
Laslavić, Lana
Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Department of English Language and Literature

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Laslavić, L. (2020). Social Trauma and the Question of Identity in Don Delillo's Falling Man (Undergraduate thesis). Osijek: Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. Retrieved from https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:826238

Laslavić, Lana. "Social Trauma and the Question of Identity in Don Delillo's Falling Man." Undergraduate thesis, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2020. https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:826238

Laslavić, Lana. "Social Trauma and the Question of Identity in Don Delillo's Falling Man." Undergraduate thesis, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2020. https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:826238

Laslavić, L. (2020). 'Social Trauma and the Question of Identity in Don Delillo's Falling Man', Undergraduate thesis, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, accessed 12 April 2025, https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:826238

Laslavić L. Social Trauma and the Question of Identity in Don Delillo's Falling Man [Undergraduate thesis]. Osijek: Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences; 2020 [cited 2025 April 12] Available at: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:826238

L. Laslavić, "Social Trauma and the Question of Identity in Don Delillo's Falling Man", Undergraduate thesis, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Osijek, 2020. Available at: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:826238

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TitleSocial Trauma and the Question of Identity in Don Delillo's Falling Man
Title (croatian)Društvena trauma i pitanje identiteta u romanu Falling Man Dona Delilla
AuthorLana Laslavić
MentorJasna Poljak Rehlicki (mentor)
GranterJosip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
(Department of English Language and Literature)
Osijek
Defense date and country2020-09-23, Croatia
Scientific / art field,
discipline and subdiscipline		HUMANISTIC SCIENCES
Philology
Anglistics
Abstract
This paper analyzes Don Delillo’s novel Falling Man in terms of trauma that characters of the novel suffered after the terrorist attacks on 11 September, the way characters deal with their trauma, as well as their search for identity. The aim of the paper is to suggest that the trauma Keith Neudecker, his wife Lianne and their son Justin suffered is intervening with their everyday lives and they are not able to continue with their everyday activities. The characters struggle to find their identities in the world that is changed and cannot come to peace with the trauma. The first chapter of this paper deals with the happenings of 11 September and with the 9/11 literature. The next chapter analyzes the traumatic experience of Keith, Lianne, and their son Justin. The third chapter explores Keith’s and Lianne’s search for identity, as well as the critique of American national identity that DeLillo offers through the relationship of Nina and Martin. The following chapter analyzes the art of recovery in the novel and DeLillo’s
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Languageenglish
URN:NBNurn:nbn:hr:142:826238
Study programmeTitle: English Language and Literature (double major)
Study programme type: university
Study level: undergraduate
Academic / professional title: sveučilišni/a prvostupnik/prvostupnica (baccalaureus/baccalaurea) engleskoga jezika i književnosti (sveučilišni/a prvostupnik/prvostupnica (baccalaureus/baccalaurea) engleskoga jezika i književnosti)
Study programmeTitle: German Language and Literature (double major)
Study programme type: university
Study level: undergraduate
Academic / professional title: sveučilišni/aprvostupnik/prvostupnica (baccalaureus/baccalaurea) njemačkoga jezika i književnosti (sveučilišni/aprvostupnik/prvostupnica (baccalaureus/baccalaurea) njemačkoga jezika i književnosti)
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