Approaches to Teaching DeLillo's White Noise - 9780873529181

Approaches to Teaching DeLillo's White NoiseAuthor(s): Tim Engles\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Modern Language Association of America, United States\nImprint: Modern Language Association of America\nISBN-13: 9780873529181, 978-0873529181\nSynopsis\nDon DeLillos satiric novel White Noise, prophetic in 1985 about American societys rampant consumerism, information overload, overreliance on the media, and environmental problems, may seem to todays 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.\n\nThis volume, like others in the MLAs Approaches to Teaching World Literature series, is divided into two parts. The first part, Materials, suggests readings and resources for both instructor and students of White Noise. The second part, Approaches, contains eighteen essays that establish cultural, technological, and theoretical contexts ([url] whiteness studies.