A Cultural Poetics Interpretation Of Don Delillo’s Falling Man

In Falling Man, DeLillo is more concerned with the9/11histories of the submerged and marginalized while getting out of the mainstream’s9/11history. Cultural poetics holds the idea that history is initially a kind of discourse. It focuses on the interactions between history and literary texts by probing into the historicity of texts and the textuality of history, and by exploring the writer’s "negotiation" and "self-fashioning" with history and culture via his literary text. Thus, a cultural poetics reading of the novel will help us get a better understanding of Don DeLillo and his Falling Man, to get to know9/11from a special perspective, and to learn more about the post9/11American people and American society.The Bush Government’s propaganda strategy on9/11and the American mainstream media’s repeated flashbacks of the traumatic scenes of9/11have constructed a kind of monolithic official narration of9/11:American’s innocent suffering,"us" against "them", and "revenge". Falling Man has subverted such a monolithic narration of9/11by focusing on alternative writings of9/11history. By depicting and examining the ordinary Americans’post-9/11existential predicament and the "falling" process of the terrorist. DeLillo has constructed a multidimensional9/11social history:meanwhile. DeLillo has also implemented his deep introspection of9/11from the perspectives of terrorism, the politics, economy and image of the USA,and the ethical caring.