ABSTRACT

One of the few available books of criticism on the topic, this monograph presents the fullest account to date of Don DeLillo's writing, situating his oeuvre within a wider analysis of the condition of contemporary fiction, and dealing with his entire work in relation to contemporary political and economic concerns for the fist time.

Providing a lucid and nuanced reading of DeLillo's ambivalent engagement with American and European culture, as well as with modernism and postmodernism, and globalization and terrorism, this fascinating volume interrogates the critical and aesthetic capacities of fiction in what is an age of global capitalism and US cultural imperialism.

chapter |16 pages

Introduction

part |2 pages

Part I The 1970s

part |2 pages

Part II The 1980s

chapter 3|22 pages

Writing and apostasy: The Names

chapter 4|22 pages

Death and the avant-garde: White Noise

chapter 5|24 pages

Becoming historical: Libra

part |2 pages

Part III The 1990s

chapter 6|19 pages

Terrorism and globalisation: Mao II

chapter 7|37 pages

The work of death: Underworld

part |2 pages

Coda Ground Zero