This report attempts to answer the question, how does Don Delillo's
             White Noise' illustrate the concept of postmodernism' It then goes on to
             answer how the novel's treatment of religion fits into the concept of
             postmodernism' Of course a good place to start is with a definition of
             postmodernism. The Cambridge dictionary defines postmodernism as "a style
             of art, writing, music, theatre, popular in the West in the 1980's and
             1990's, which includes features from several different periods in the past
             or from the present and past." Postmodernism in my opinion rejects a notion
             of a universal truth and therefore disputes the meaning is usually
             culturally constructed, relative and subjective. DeLillo does a good job
             capturing the quintessence of American popular culture through his humors
             In my opinion, Don Delillo easily met the definition of postmodernism
             with this work because the characters are off living life without a clue
             death is a part of life. White Noise is basically a book from the past that
             could easily be mistaken as book that was written today or back in the
             1960's. The order is about American's fear of death. As a toxic cloud
             sweeps over the book's community, the reaper is awoken in the minds of the
             characters. The fact that Jack is a professor of Hitler Studies lets the
             reader associate mass death via society's most notorious killer. The toxic
             cloud could also be associated to the old Atomic Bomb Shelters in all the
             suburban back yards in the 1950's. Fear of death is not a time constrained
             trepidation and Delillo uses postmodern issues to demonstrate our fears and
             inadequacies today, yesterday or tomorrow. There is no difference between
             the modern drugs used to hide the fear of death than the Prozac-like drug
             Babette hid for example. Ancient fears, especially death, are just as scary
             One issue relating to postmodernism and religion can be
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