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Don DeLillo once remarked to an interviewer that his intention is to use "the whole picture, the whole culture," of America. Since the publication of his first novel Americana in 1971, DeLillo has explored modern American culture through a series of acclaimed novels, including White Noise (1985; winner of the American Book Award), Libra (1988), and Underworld (1997). For Mark Osteen, the most bracing and unsettling feature of DeLillo's work is that, although his fiction may satirize cultural forms, it never does so from a privileged position outside the culture. His work brilliantly mimics the argots of the very phenomena it dissects: violent thrillers and conspiracy theories, pop music, advertising, science fiction, film, and television. As a result, DeLillo has been read both as a denouncer and as a defender of contemporary culture; in fact, Osteen argues, neither description is adequate. DeLillo's dialogue with modern institutions, such as chemical companies, the CIA, and the media, respects their power and ingenuity while criticizing their dangerous consequences. Even as DeLillo borrows from their discourses, he maintains a tenaciously opposing stance toward the sources of collective power. "Osteen's wide-ranging knowledge of media history and theory and ability to draw upon a variety of theoretical approaches with great clarity convincingly links DeLillo to the major intellectual currents of our times. This is just the sort of book to generate a livelier discussion of DeLillo's place in the postmodern canon."—David Cowart, University of South Carolina "A strongly argued analysis and close reading of Delillo's works. . . . There is much here in the methodology and discussion of postmodern themes and techniques that will have relevance to American studies and cultural studies more widely."—Forum for Modern Language Studies

DeLillo, Don --- Culture in literature. --- Postmodernism (Literature) --- Culture in literature --- Criticism and interpretation --- Postmodernism (Literature) - United States --- DeLillo, Don - Criticism and interpretation --- DeLillo, Don (1936-....) --- Critique et interprétation

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American fiction --- Postmodernism (Literature) --- 20th century --- United States --- American fiction - 20th century. --- Postmodernism (Literature) - United States. --- ROMAN AMERICAIN --- POSTMODERNISME (LITTERATURE) --- 20E SIECLE --- ETATS-UNIS

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American fiction --- Postmodernism (Literature) --- Inscriptions in literature --- Authorship in literature --- Writing in literature --- History and criticism --- American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism --- Postmodernism (Literature) - United States --- Litterature americaine --- Critique textuelle

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Postmodernism (Literature) --- Satire --- Satire, American --- Classicism --- Experimental fiction, American --- Classical influences --- History and criticism --- Pynchon, Thomas --- Criticism and interpretation --- United States --- Satire [American ] --- American fiction --- Postmodernism (Literature) - United States --- Satire - Classical influences --- Satire, American - History and criticism --- Classicism - United States --- Experimental fiction, American - History and criticism --- Pynchon, Thomas - Criticism and interpretation

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A Trauma Artist examines how O'Brien's works variously rewrite his own traumatization during the war in Vietnam as a never-ending fiction that paradoxically ""recovers"" personal experience by both recapturing and (re)disguising it. Mark Heberle considers O'Brien's career as a writer through the prisms of post-traumatic stress disorder, postmodernist metafiction, and post-World War II American political uncertainties and public violence.

Vietnam War, 1961-1975 --- Post-traumatic stress disorder --- War stories, American --- Postmodernism (Literature) --- Psychic trauma in literature --- Soldiers in literature --- Literature and the war --- History and criticism --- Psychic trauma in literature. --- Soldiers in literature. --- Literature and the war. --- History and criticism. --- O'Brien, Tim --- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - Literature and the war --- Post-traumatic stress disorder - United States --- War stories, American - History and criticism --- Postmodernism (Literature) - United States --- O'Brien, Tim, --- O'Brien, William Timothy, --- Criticism and interpretation.