Approaches to Teaching Delillo's White Noise
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Don DeLillo's satiric novel White Noise, prophetic in 1985 about American society's rampant consumerism, information overload, overreliance on the media, and environmental problems, may seem to today's students simply a description of their lived reality. The challenge for teachers, then, is to help them appreciate both the postmodern qualities of the novel and its social critique.

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Don DeLillo's satiric novel White Noise, prophetic in 1985 about American society's rampant consumerism, information overload, overreliance on the media, and environmental problems, may seem to today's students simply a description of their lived reality. The challenge for teachers, then, is to help them appreciate both the postmodern qualities of the novel and its social critique.
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Tim Engles, associate professor of English at Eastern Illinois University, is coeditor with Hugh Ruppersburg of Critical Essays on Don Delillo. He has written on the works of Tim O'Brien, Chang-rae Lee, and Alice Walker. He is currently studying whiteness and cultural identity in contemporary American literature, film, and the visual arts. John N. Duvall is professor of English at Purdue University and the editor of MFS: Modern Fiction Studies. His books include Faulkner's Marginal Couple; The Identifying Fictions of Toni Morrison; Don DeLillo's Underworld; and, as editor, Productive Postmodernism and Faulkner and Postmodernism. He is currently studying the figurative use of blackness in Faulkner and other southern writers.