White Privilege and Racism in Don Delillo'white Noise: A New Historicist Study

This study examines White Noise by Don DeLillo from a New Historicist perspective. The phrase "new historicism" was first used by Greenblatt to describe a strategy to highlight history and culture with historical, cultural, and many religious issues. The work is the production of the author's and cultural circumstances, according to the New Historicist viewpoint. The main goal of the study is to draw attention to historical and cultural developments in American culture using the characters from the text, particularly Jack Gladney. This study's goal is to examine at DeLillo's book using new historicist theory as the major methodology and to look at the historical, cultural, social, and religious background while paying close attention to the text. Everything shows that text is a product of its time. This research emphasizes how media, technology, consumerism, and white privilege are used to exercise power. This study has addressed numerous cultural facets of American society about power. It elaborates on the events using Clifford Geertz's concept of thick description.