Don DeLillo, White Noise, New York: Viking Penguin, 1985

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New York ◽  
Think India ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 875-879
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M. Thendral ◽  
Dr. G. Parvathy

DeLillo is a well- known American novelist of fifteen novels, who is widely regarded by other critics as an important satirist of modern culture. Throughout his novels, he has picturized the chaos underwent by the society i.e. the effects of media, technology and popular culture on the daily lives of contemporary American society. All of his novels move in and around New York City as a setting. The study attempts to examine the development of New York City and individuals in a post-modernistic perspective.


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Jennifer Green-Lewis ◽  
Margaret Soltan
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New York ◽  

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Alessandro Cinquegrani

Don DeLillo is one of the most important interpreters of the West. One of the key points of his work is the analysis of the effects of the “end of the history” (Fukuyama). The protagonist of Underworld says “I long for days of disorder”. History is represented in the first part of his works (Running Dog, White Noise) as Nazism and Hitler’s legacy, while later, in Cosmopolis and in Zero K, it is embodied by immigrant characters. This study analyes how these figures become symbolic images within the framework of the author’s thought.


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