唐﹒德里罗是美国著名作家，至今已出版了16部长篇小说，获奖无数，其中包括：1985年《白噪音》获得美国国家图书奖，1992年《毛二》获得笔会/福克纳奖，1999年获得耶路撒冷奖，2010年获得笔会/索尔?贝娄美国小说成就奖，2013年获得首届国会图书馆美国小说奖。本书从新历史主义的视角探讨了德里罗文本的历史性、文本性及其多视角、叙事的非连续性、黑色幽默和互文性的叙事策略，指出德里罗是个具有社会责任感、有道德和强烈历史意识的作家。可以认为，他是个美国后现代编年史家。他的小说尖锐地批评了美国后现代文化。

Introduction
Ⅰ. DeLiHo's Life and Career
Ⅱ. Research Reviews on DeLillo in the United States and China
Ⅲ. 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
Ⅰ. 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
Ⅱ. 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
Ⅰ. White Noise
1. "Death Is in the Air"
2. "As Long as the Supermarket Did Not Slip"
Ⅱ. Mao Ⅱ
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"
Ⅲ. 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
Ⅰ. Multiple Points of View
Ⅱ. Discontinuity in Narration
Ⅲ. Black Humor
Ⅳ. Intertextuality
1. Allusion
2. Adaptation
3. Pastiche
4. Historiographic Metafiction
Conclusion
Works Cited
Acknowledgments