Introduction
��. DeLiHo's Life and Career
��. Research Reviews on DeLillo in the United States and China
��. Theoretical Framework and Structure of the Book
1. New Historicism and the Key Representatives
2. The Structure and Contents of the Book

Chapter One The Historicity of Dekillo's Texts
��. Context: The Postmodern Condition 131
1. Daniel Bell's Theory of the Post-Industrial Society
2. Jean-Franqois Lyotard's Analysis of the Postmodern Condition
3. Jean Baudrillard's Idea of Consumer Society
4. Fredric Jameson's Viewpoint on Late Capitalism
��. The Chronicler of America: Historicizing the Present
1. Libra." The Origin of American Postmodern Condition
2. Falling Man: A ��Brave New Chronicler of the Age of Terror��

Chapter Two The Textuality of History: Dekillo's Chronicle of Postmodern America
��. White Noise
1. "Death Is in the Air"
2. "As Long as the Supermarket Did Not Slip"
��. Mao ��
1. "When the Old God Leaves the World"
2. "Nothing Happens Until It's Consumed"
3. "Novelists and Terrorists Are Playing a Zero-Sum Game"
��. Underworld
1. "The Shot Heard Round the World"
2. "We're All Gonna Die"
3. "Waste Is the Secret History"
4 "Everything Is Connected in the End"

Chapter Three Narrative Strategies in Dekillo's Fictional Texts
��. Multiple Points of View
��. Discontinuity in Narration
��. Black Humor
��. Intertextuality
1. Allusion
2. Adaptation
3. Pastiche
4. Historiographic Metafiction
Conclusion
Works Cited
Acknowledgments