Peeking In From Periphery: Delillo’s Technoscapes And Women

Abstract

The present paper analyzes the women in Don DeLillo’s select fiction to highlight the marginalization of the relegated gender despite the presence of a societal structure that has evolved into a hyperreal cosmopolis of inclusion. The study aims to underscore the superficial position held by these characters allowing the patriarchal subjugation of women in a stereotypical literary construction by a male author. The discussion accredits to the critical concepts of Donna Haraway whose works assert that the advancement in technical innovations will culminate in the liberation and emancipation of the inferior sex in the social order. It also endeavors at identifying the locale of female action usually seen on the periphery as dictated by the cultural norms, where they’re at the risk of being removed from the enforced hierarchy altogether. However, despite sharing the same evolutionary relationship with technology, the contemporary era does not aid the rescue of these women because the power lies with the pen of a male author.