Celebrity in American literature

Peter Kosenko kosenko at netwood.net
Tue Mar 6 11:49:53 PST 2001


I don't know if this counts, but Percival Everett's "Glyph" is a hilarious send-up of postmodernism. Could be that the target of the satire is ACADEMIC celebrity. Roland Barthes makes a few cameos.

http://www.laweekly.com/ink/00/09/books-ehrenreich.shtml http://www.nytimes.com/books/99/11/28/bib/991121.ever.html http://citypages.com/databank/20/992/article8271.asp http://www.graywolfpress.org/titles/glyph.html

On the other hand, maybe not, but you have provided the opportunity for me to publicize it. Try the links above.

And I second Yoshie's comments on DeLillo.

Peter Kosenko

---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: Jlcranford at aol.com Reply-To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2001 12:15:53 EST


>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)?
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>--Jennifer
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>In a message dated Sat, 3 Mar 2001 1:58:14 PM Eastern Standard Time, Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> writes:
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>Don DeLillo's _White Noise_ (1985) & _Libra_ (1988).
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>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).
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>Yoshie
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