New Critical Essays on Kurt Vonnegut

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Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Flabbergasted....Pages 3-9
Kurt Vonnegut’s Mother Night (1961): Howard W. Campbell, Jr., and the Banalities of Evil....Pages 11-26
“No Damn Cat, and No Damn Cradle”: The Fundamental Flaws in Fundamentalism according to Vonnegut....Pages 27-45
“God Damn It, You’ve Got to Be Kind”: War and Altruism in the Works of Kurt Vonnegut....Pages 47-65
The Journey Home in Kurt Vonnegut’s World War II Novels....Pages 67-88
Front Matter....Pages 89-89
Art, Domesticity, and Vonnegut’s Women....Pages 91-111
Apocalypse in the Optative Mood: Galápagos, or, Starting Over....Pages 113-131
Folding Time: History, Subjectivity, and Intimacy in Vonnegut....Pages 133-146
Resilience, Time, and the Ability of Humor to Salvage Any Situation....Pages 147-164
Front Matter....Pages 165-165
Duty Dance with Death: A Farewell to Arms and Slaughterhouse-Five....Pages 167-192
“Somewhere in There Was Springtime”: Kurt Vonnegut, His Apocalypses, and His Post-9/11 Heirs....Pages 193-212
Wampeters and Foma? Misreading Religion in Cat’s Cradle and The Book of Dave....Pages 213-225
Back Matter....Pages 227-233