Critique of Global Capitalism in Don DeLillo'sCosmopolis

Abstract

This research explore show and why Don DeLillo has critiqued globalization or global capitalism in his novel Cosmopolis.This research contends that DeLillo's insular representation of a cosmopolitan America is the result of his fear towards others who enter in America through the process of globalization, and cause the events like 9/11. And, for DeLillo,the very process brings about clashes, gaps, and cracks in the American society as a whole and accordingly end angersthe solidity of American culture.By taking the oretical insights on globalization proposed by Marshall McLuhan, Arjun Appadurai, Timothy BrennanandShaobo Xie, this research unfolds that DeLillo takes neoliberal globalization as a threat for the solidity of American culture and evinces his anxiety towards global capitalism which creates binaries like master versus wage-slave, present versus absent, masculinity versus feminity,us versus them, civilized versus uncivilized, and so on. Keywords:globalization,global capitalism,the other,hegemony, subversion, homogenization