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