Introduction 1
Ⅰ．DeLillo's Life and Career 2
Ⅱ．Research Reviews on DeLillo in the United States and China 11
Ⅲ．Theoretical Framework and Structure of the Book 19
1．New Historicism and the Key Representatives 19
2．The Structure and Contents of the Book 24
Chapter One The Historicity of DeLillo's Texts 31
Ⅰ．Context:The Postmodern Condition 31
1．Daniel Bell's Theory of the Post-Industrial Society 32
2．Jean-Fran？ois Lyotard's Analysis of the Postmodern Condition 34
3．Jean Baudrillard's Idea of Consumer Society 36
4．Fredric Jameson's Viewpoint on Late Capitalism 41
Ⅱ．The Chronicler of America:Historieizing the Present 45
1．Libra:The Origin of American Postmodern Condition 46
2．Falling Man:A"Brave New Chronicler of the Age of Terror" 60
Chapter Two The Textuality of History:DeLillo's Chronicle of Postmodern America 87
Ⅰ．White Noise 89
1．"Death Is in the Air" 89
2．"As Long as the Supermarket Did Not Slip" 104
Ⅱ．Mao Ⅱ 114
1．"When the Old God Leaves the World" 115
2．"Nothing Happens Until It's Consumed" 121
3．"Novelists and Terrorists Are Playing a Zero-Sum Game" 133
Ⅲ．Underworld 143
1．"The Shot Heard Round the World" 143
2．"We're All Gonna Die" 152
3．"Waste Is the Secret History" 158
4．"Everything Is Connected in the End" 172
Chapter Three Narrative Strategies in DeLillo's Fictional Texts 175
Ⅰ．Multiple Points of View 176
Ⅱ．Discontinuity in Narration 182
Ⅲ．Black Humor 186
Ⅳ．Intertextuality 191
1．Allusion 193
2．Adaptation 195
3．Pastiche 196
4．Historiographic Metafiction 198
Conclusion 202
Works Cited 215
Acknowledgments 228