Postcolonial Analysis of Don DeLillo's Falling Man

Abstract

This research tries to analyze Don DeLillo’s Falling Man by applying postcolonial theory to the novel to reveal the colonial discourse in DeLillo’s Falling Man. In other words, it tries to explore how DeLillo’s novel represents various aspects of postcolonial oppression. DeLillo’s Falling Man shows the effect of 9/11 attacks on some people who survived after the disaster. In the novel, he gives misrepresentation of the Orientals in general, and Oriental Muslims in particular. In fact, since the 9/11 attacks, most of literature written in English has again revived the Orientalists' discourse which has reinforced colonialist ideology and has created postcolonial discourse. Thus, this paper aims to remove the negative stereotyped representations of Orientals in DeLillo’s Falling Man.