Don DeLillo

Katherine Da Cunha Lewin teaches English Literature and American Studies at the University of Sussex, UK.Kiron Ward is a Teaching Fellow in Postcolonial Literature at the University of Sussex, UK.

Lewin (Univ. of Sussex, UK) and Ward (Univ. of East Anglia, UK) include nine essays and a closing interview with DeLillo in this book, which joins a growing literature on DeLillo … The larger intent of all the essays is to suggest that the end is near, that parameters set up do not allow the individual to go beyond the opiate of mass consumerism, that this is the limit. In the closing interview, DeLillo poses the question of whether advanced technology will improve human consciousness or destroy it. Notes follow individual essays; the bibliography is extensive. Summing Up: Recommended.

• Series Editors’ PrefaceAcknowledgementsContributorsChronology of Don DeLillo's LifeIntroduction: A Trick of the Light: Don DeLillo in the 21st CenturyKatherine Da Cunha Lewin (University of Sussex, UK) & Kiron Ward (University of East Anglia, UK)1. 'I'm sure you must be somebody': White Masculinity in Don DeLillo's Americana and White NoiseTim Engles (Eastern Illinois University, USA)2. Apocalyptism, Environmentalism and the Other in Don DeLillo’s End Zone, Great Jones Street and Ratner’s StarKatherine Da Cunha Lewin (University of Sussex, UK)3. Libranth: Nicholas Branch's Joycean Labyrinth in Don DeLillo's LibraGraley Herren (Xavier University, USA)4. Unstable Bodies in Don DeLillo's Mao II and The Body ArtistRebecca Harding (University of Sussex, UK)5. ‘We came for the dirt but stayed for the talk’: Don DeLillo’s TheatreMark Osteen (Loyola University Maryland, USA)6. Don DeLillo's Italian American: The Early Short Stories and UnderworldMaria Lauret (University of Sussex, UK)7. Staging the Counter-Narrative in Don DeLillo's Falling ManRonan McKinney (University of Sussex, UK)8. The Art of Being Out of Time in Don DeLillo's Point OmegaCatherine Gander (Maynooth University, Ireland)9. Don DeLillo's Zero K and the Dream of the Cryonic ElectionDavid Cowart (University of South Carolina, USA)Interview: The Edge of the Future: A Discussion with Don DeLilloPeter Boxall (University of Sussex, UK)Further ReadingIndex