Celebrity in American literature

[Jlcranford at aol.com]

Thank you.  Anyone else have any thoughts/suggestions (characters in postmodern American literature who are interested in, obsessed with, or relating in some other way to celebrity)?

--Jennifer

In a message dated Sat, 3 Mar 2001  1:58:14 PM Eastern Standard Time, Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> writes:

Don DeLillo's _White Noise_ (1985) & _Libra_ (1988).

Thesis: DeLillo's novels _White Noise_ & _Libra_ explore how 
paranoia, radical skepticism, obsession with coincidence, & conspiracy theory mutually reinforce one another & allow us to see that the fetishism of celebrities is integral to the production of 
the dreadful mess that is postmodern Americana (= paranoia, radical skepticism, obsession with coincidence, & conspiracy theory).

Yoshie

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