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Article: Amazons in the Underworld: Gender, the Body, and Power in the Novels of Don DeLillo.(literary criticism)(Critical Essay)
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- CRITIQUE: Studies in Contemporary Fiction
- Article date:
- June 22, 2001
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To deepen and expand the study of Don DeLillo, we need to acknowledge the role gender plays in his work. Since William Burke's "Football, Literature and Culture"--the first literary criticism on DeLillo--was published in the Southwest Review twenty-five years ago, scholars of DeLillo have addressed topics as diverse as postmodernity, historiography, systems theory, technology, film, and literary Naturalism. Work in these areas has been and may continue to be necessary, but the field of DeLillo studies should not limit itself to these well-traveled and, arguably, still fertile critical grounds.(1) Fortunately, there are signs that critics are beginning to move into other ...