The Etymology of Despair in the Americas
International Labor and Working Class History
; 99:58-65, 2021.
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in English
| ProQuest Central | ID: covidwho-2280477
ABSTRACT
Halfway into White Noise, Don DeLillo's novel from 1985, Jack Gladney packs his family in the car and leaves town running from a black chemical cloud. The "airborne toxic event” had triggered an emergency evacuation plan floodlights from helicopters, sirens, unmarked cars from obscure agencies, clogged roads, makeshift shelters at a Boy Scout camp where the Red Cross would dispense juice and coffee. People are confused, they seek information wherever they can, "[s]mall crowds collected around certain men.” Among generalized bewilderment, Gladney observes a few individuals moving faster and more assertively than the rest, then getting into a Land Rover. In the chaotic scene of crisis, their confidence gets his attention. "Their bumper stickers read GUN CONTROL IS MIND CONTROL” Gladney reads. And his mind wanders "In situations like this, you want to stick close to people in right-wing fringe groups. They've practiced staying alive.”
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International Labor and Working Class History
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