Postmodern narrative in Kurt Vonneguts Slaughterhouse-Five

• Main Authors: Abu Jweid, Abdalhadi Nimer Abdalqader, Ali Termizi, Arbaayah, Majeed, Abdulhameed A.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: American Research Institute for Policy Development 2015
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/45903/1/Postmodern%20narrative%20in%20Kurt%20Vonneguts%20Slaughterhouse-Five.pdf; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/45903/
• Institution: Universiti Putra Malaysia

This article explores Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) as a postmodern critique of modern literary modes. As a novel recapitulating within itself a postmodern relative perspective of reality, it elucidates one aspect of postmodernism, that of literary experimentation. Vonnegut experimen...