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The Environmental Unconscious in the Fiction of Don DeLillo (Hardcover)
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The Environmental Unconscious in the Fiction of Don DeLillo (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
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This book presents an ecocritical reading of DeLillo's novels in an
attempt to mediate between the seemingly incompatible influences of
postmodernism and environmentalism. Martucci argues that although
DeLillo is responding to and engaging with a postmodern culture of
simulacra and simulation, his novels do not reflect a postmodernist
theory of the "end of nature." Rather, his fiction emphasizes the
lasting significance of the natural world and alerts us to the
dangers of destroying it. In order to support this argument,
Martucci examines DeLillo's novels in the context of traditional
American literary representations of the environment, especially
through the lens of Leo Marx's discussion of the conflict between
technology and nature found in traditional American literature. She
demonstrate that DeLillo's fiction explores the way in which new
technologies alter perceptions and mediate reality to a further
extent than earlier technologies; however, she argues that he keeps
the material world at the forefront of his novels, thereby
illuminating the environmental implications of these technologies.
Through close readings of Americana, The Names, White Noise, and
Underworld, and discussions of postmodernist and ecocritical
theories, this project engages with current criticism of DeLillo,
postmodernist fiction, and environmental criticism.
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