“Yo-Yos in the Dark”: JFK, Don DeLillo’s Libra and the Fabric of Connections

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Description

A guest lecture given at the Foreign Languages Institute, University of Antwerp, Belgium, exploring the ways in which Don DeLillo's novel Libra (1988) draws and comments upon the speculations that have for decades sought to explain and interpret the assassination of US President John F. Kennedy in 1963.
Period17 Dec 2002
Held atUniversity of Antwerp, Belgium
Degree of RecognitionRegional

Keywords

  • John F. Kennedy
  • assassination
  • conspiracy theory
  • Don DeLillo
  • Libra