Presents critical essays that discuss the language, characters, plot, and major themes of the novel dealing with one man's memory of the fire-bombing of Dresden.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-171) and index
Contents:
Slaughterhouse-five / William Rodney Allen Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five, or, How to storify an atrocity / Peter Freese Rewriting history : Céline and Kurt Vonnegut / Philip Watts Slaughterhouse-Five : Pilgrim's Progress / Lawrence R. Broer The Vietnamization of World War II in Slaughterhouse-Five and Gravity's Rainbow / Christina Jarvis Breaking the silence / Donald E. Morse Speaking personally : Slaughterhouse-Five and the essays / Jerome Klinkowitz "You must remember this" : trauma and memory in Catch-22 and Slaughterhouse-Five / Alberto Cacicedo "A launching pad of belief" : Kurt Vonnegut and Postmodern humor / Kevin Brown Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) : so it goes / Scott MacFarlane
