Don DeLillo: Contemporary Critical Perspectives

✍ Scribed by Katherine Da Cunha Lewin (editor), Kiron Ward (editor)

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 217
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Don DeLillo is widely regarded as one of the most significant, and prescient, writers of our time. Since the 1960s, DeLillo's fiction has been at the cutting edge of thought on American identity, globalization, technology, environmental destruction, and terrorism, always with a distinctively macabre and humorous eye.

Don DeLillo: Contemporary Critical Perspectives brings together leading scholars of the contemporary American novel to guide readers through DeLillo's oeuvre, from his early short stories through to 2016's Zero K, including his theatrical work. As well as critically exploring DeLillo's engagement with key contemporary themes, the book also includes a new interview with the author, annotated guides to further reading, and a chronology of his life and work.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Series
Title
Copyright
Contents
Series editors’ preface
Contributors
Acknowledgements
Chronology of Don DeLillo’s life
Introduction: A trick of the light: Don DeLillo in the twenty-first century
1 ‘I’m sure you must be somebody’: White masculinity in Don DeLillo’s Americana and White Noise
2 Apocalyptism, environmentalism and the other in Don DeLillo’s End Zone, Great Jones Street and Ratner’s Star
3 Libranth: Nicholas Branch’s Joycean Labyrinth in Don DeLillo’s Libra
4 Unstable bodies in Don DeLillo’s Mao II and The Body Artist
5 ‘We came for the dirt but stayed for the talk’: Don DeLillo’s theatre
6 Don DeLillo’s Italian American: The early short stories and Underworld
7 Staging the counter-narrative in Don DeLillo’s Falling Man
8 The art of being out of time in Don DeLillo’s Point Omega
9 Don DeLillo’s Zero K and the dream of cryonic election
Interview: The edge of the future: A discussion with Don DeLillo
Further reading
Index