چکیده

Since its publication, Don DeLillo’s White Noise has been a focal point of literary analysis as one of the best examples of postmodern texts. The novel has received numerous analyses, most of which make an effort to decode the postmodern meaning lurking behind the different behaviors of characters within the novel. However, little attention has been paid to the question of why those characters exhibit such behaviors which might be interpreted as postmodern. This paper seeks to answer this question through analyzing the environment of the novel from a Bourdieusian point of view by deploying concepts of field, capital, habitus and symbolic violence. First, it identifies different forms of field and capital in the novel by analyzing the rules, regularities and interests behind them. Then, it establishes the relationship between habitus and symbolic violence in an effort to illuminate the ways in which characters internalize social arbitrariness, establish their identities and posit different forms of practices. The paper argues that much of the behaviors exhibited in the novel are the result of a constant interplay among the four aforementioned Bourdieusian terms.

کليدواژه ها

Don DeLillo, White Noise, Pierre Bourdieu, Field, Capital, Habitus, Symbolic violence

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Erfan Bandad , 1398 , A Bourdieusian analysis of Don DeLillo’s White Noise , اولين کنفرانس بين المللي مطالعات زبان انگليسي