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Looking Back at Wasteland(s): A Historiographic Metafictional Reading of Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five
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Some moments can never become memories; on the contrary, every breath taken, every word uttered, and every gesture performed are reminiscent of them. Much as the past is said to be past, it never dies. Memories of war belong to this group of the past never past, as in Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five (1969). The novel centres on a traumatized survivor of the Dresden bombing of World War II with an untraditional, fragmented, surreal, and impressive narrative style and generic hybridity of science fiction and historiographic metafiction. Slaughterhouse-Five is an example of historiographic metafiction in that it presents the bombing as a historical fact combined with fictional characters and the author's self-references, experiences, and interpretation of the event. The novel is also a significant work with regard to trauma studies inasmuch as it portrays the effects of wars on human psychology, the traumatized protagonist of the novel, along with other characters, including the author himself. Vonnegut employs metafictional elements to display that people experiencing war trauma create figurative wastelands, their minds become confused and disorganized, and the line between reality and fiction blurs, and thereby, he challenges the conventional boundaries between fiction and history. In that regard, what follows is an attempt to demonstrate how wars turn landscapes and human beings into wastelands both literally and figuratively through not only the author’s but also the protagonist Billy Pilgrim’s experiences and, finally, how postmodernism could be a tool to demonstrate those traumas.
Anahtar Kelimeler
Kaynakça
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Ayrıntılar
Birincil Dil
İngilizce
Konular
Kuzey Amerika Dilleri, Edebiyatları ve Kültürleri
Bölüm
Araştırma Makalesi
Yazarlar
Erken Görünüm Tarihi
29 Eylül 2024
Yayımlanma Tarihi
30 Eylül 2024
Gönderilme Tarihi
5 Haziran 2024
Kabul Tarihi
28 Ağustos 2024
Yayımlandığı Sayı
Yıl 2024 Cilt: 7 Sayı: 3
APA
Komut Bakınç, S. (2024). Looking Back at Wasteland(s): A Historiographic Metafictional Reading of Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five. Uluslararası Dil Edebiyat ve Kültür Araştırmaları Dergisi, 7(3), 467-478. https://doi.org/10.37999/udekad.1496333
AMA
1.Komut Bakınç S. Looking Back at Wasteland(s): A Historiographic Metafictional Reading of Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five. UDEKAD. 2024;7(3):467-478. doi:10.37999/udekad.1496333
Chicago
Komut Bakınç, Sultan. 2024. “Looking Back at Wasteland(s): A Historiographic Metafictional Reading of Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five”. Uluslararası Dil Edebiyat ve Kültür Araştırmaları Dergisi 7 (3): 467-78. https://doi.org/10.37999/udekad.1496333.
EndNote
Komut Bakınç S (01 Eylül 2024) Looking Back at Wasteland(s): A Historiographic Metafictional Reading of Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five. Uluslararası Dil Edebiyat ve Kültür Araştırmaları Dergisi 7 3 467–478.
IEEE
[1]S. Komut Bakınç, “Looking Back at Wasteland(s): A Historiographic Metafictional Reading of Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five”, UDEKAD, c. 7, sy 3, ss. 467–478, Eyl. 2024, doi: 10.37999/udekad.1496333.
ISNAD
Komut Bakınç, Sultan. “Looking Back at Wasteland(s): A Historiographic Metafictional Reading of Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five”. Uluslararası Dil Edebiyat ve Kültür Araştırmaları Dergisi 7/3 (01 Eylül 2024): 467-478. https://doi.org/10.37999/udekad.1496333.
JAMA
1.Komut Bakınç S. Looking Back at Wasteland(s): A Historiographic Metafictional Reading of Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five. UDEKAD. 2024;7:467–478.
MLA
Komut Bakınç, Sultan. “Looking Back at Wasteland(s): A Historiographic Metafictional Reading of Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five”. Uluslararası Dil Edebiyat ve Kültür Araştırmaları Dergisi, c. 7, sy 3, Eylül 2024, ss. 467-78, doi:10.37999/udekad.1496333.
Vancouver
1.Sultan Komut Bakınç. Looking Back at Wasteland(s): A Historiographic Metafictional Reading of Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five. UDEKAD. 01 Eylül 2024;7(3):467-78. doi:10.37999/udekad.1496333
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