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Technology and Postmodern Subjectivity in Don DeLillo's Novels (Hardcover, New edition)
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Technology and Postmodern Subjectivity in Don DeLillo's Novels (Hardcover, New edition)
Series: Modern American Literature, 52
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More than any other major American author, Don DeLillo has examined
the manner in which contemporary American consciousness has been
shaped by the historically unique incursion into daily life of
information, military, and consumer technologies. In DeLillo's
fictions, technological apparatuses are not merely set-pieces in
the characters' environments, nor merely tools to move the plot
along, they are sites of mystery and magic, whirlpools of
space-time, and convex mirrors of identity. Television sets, filmic
images, automobiles, airplanes, telephones, computers, and nuclear
bombs are not simply objects in the world for DeLillo's characters;
they are psychological phenomena that shape the possibilities for
action, influence the nature of perception, and incorporate
themselves into the fabric of memory and identity. DeLillo is a
phenomenologist of the contemporary technoscape and an ecologist of
our new kind of natural habitat. Through a close reading of four
DeLillo novels, Technology and Postmodern Subjectivity in Don
DeLillo's Novels examines the variety of modes in which DeLillo's
fictions illustrate the technologically mediated confluence of his
human subjects and the field of cultural objects in which they
discover themselves. The model of interactionism between human
beings and technological instruments that is implicit in DeLillo's
writing suggests significant applications both to the study of
other contemporary novelists as well as to contemporary cultural
studies.
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