Dr. Samira Sasani & Fatereh Nemati
Shiraz University, Iran
This paper attempts to analyze Kurt Vonnegut’s novel, Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children’s Crusade: A Duty Dance with Death thorough Postmodernist point of view, as one of the seminal American literary canons. As an example of a postmodernist novel, Slaughterhouse-Five embodies some elements that are identified as essential to postmodernist literary works such as, a mixture of genres, death of the author, fragmentation, death of the modernist subject, sense of time, metafiction, stream of consciousness narration, self-reflexivity, parody, intertextuality, and loss of the real. In order to scrutinize these features, the ideas proposed by Ronald Barthes, William H. Gass, Robert Scholes, Linda Hutcheon, Vladimir Nabokov, Julia Kristeva, and Jean Baudrillard are employed in this study. In the introductory part, the paper talks briefly about the history of postmodernism; the rest of the paper is divided into different parts, each devoted to one of the characteristics of postmodernism. Employing the critics’ ideas, the researchers try to depict how postmodernism works in the Novel.
The above abstract is a part of the article which was accepted at The Second International Conference on Current Issues of Languages, Dialects and Linguistics (WWW.TLLL.IR), 1-2 February 2018, Ahwaz.
