Postmodernist Conspiracies --- The Comforting Reality of Conspiracies
Postmodernist Conspiracies --- The Comforting Reality of Conspiracies Don Delilo’s Libra offers a postmodernist interpretation of the JFK assassination, one that largely led to a shift in mistrust, skepticism, and conspiracy. Instead of presenting the assassination as a definitive event, Delilo imagines what could have happened, he effectively blurs the lines between factualization and fiction. By doing so, the main conspiracy in Libra aligns and sort-of further proves other depictions of the assassination that to this day resist closure. Delilo convinces the reader to consider that the assassination wasn’t a political tragedy, but a turning point for how Americans understood truth in its authority. The first major event that produced widespread distrust in the U.S. government is often seen as the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Prior to JFK, Americans settled skepticism with little resistance, however the confusion and a...
