“Making Nonsense of the Little Categories”: Slaughterhouse-Five and The Memoirs of a Survivor as autobiographical science fiction

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“Making Nonsense of the Little Categories”: Slaughterhouse-Five and The Memoirs of a Survivor as autobiographical science fiction

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Victoria University of Wellington

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Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) and Doris Lessing’s The Memoirs of a Survivor (1974) are both novels that blend autobiography with science fiction. In a review of Vonnegut’s Mother Night, Lessing writes that he “makes nonsense of the little categories”. The same applies to Lessing. These two novels live in the porous borders between genre—between fiction and non-fiction.  Vonnegut writes that he can’t remember much of his experiences in the firebombing of Dresden in the Second Worl...

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Masters

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2017

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Hight, Georgia

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https://figshare.com/articles/thesis/_Making_Nonsense_of_the_Little_Categories_Slaughterhouse-Fiv...

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Literary theory / Stylistics and textual analysis / Autobiography / Science fiction / Trauma / Kurt Vonnegut / Doris Lessing / School: School of English, Film, Theatre and Media Studies / Stylistics and Textual Analysis / Literary Theory / Expanding Knowledge in Language, Communication and Culture / Degree Discipline: English Literature / Degree Level: Masters / Degree Name: Master of Arts

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