Taking Out the Trash: Don DeLillo's Underworld, Liquid Modernity, and the End of Garbage

Autor:	David R. H. Evans
Rok vydání:	2006
Předmět:	Literature History Literature and Literary Theory business.industry Modernity media_common.quotation_subject Postmodernism Magnum opus Politics Motif (narrative) business Garbage Realism media_common
Zdroj:	The Cambridge Quarterly. 35:103-132
ISSN:	1471-6836 0008-199X
Popis:	The novels of Don DeLillo have often been seen as exemplary postmodern texts, but in many ways his magnum opus, Underworld, demands to be read as a reaffirmation of the principles of literary realism that reflects a concern for the fate of the real in the current social and political order, what Zygmunt Bauman describes as the era of 'Liquid Modernity'. Looking closely at the motif of garbage in the novel, the author argues that what it represents is the idiosyncratic particularity of the real, the 'sand-grain manyness of things', which survived in the margins during the period of 'Heavy Modernity', but which now is in the process of disappearing. The novel as a whole is an attempt to make space for those particulars, and the individual identities that depend on them.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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