Kurt Vonnegut‟s Slaughterhouse-Five: A Postmodernist Study

This study tries to analyze Kurt Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse-Five" from a postmodernist point of view.The concepts used are mostly from a range of literary and psychological resources.Vonnegut applies some narrative techniques which closely match those of the postmodernist diegetic process.The narrative has a potentially representative content which opens one's horizons toward new sources of meaning and conceptual interpretation.The focal point, in this study, is to examine the ontological level, stream of narration, fragmentation, parody and irony to see how tangibly these terms agree with the very context of the abovementioned novel and to find out whether the purely abstract terms extracted from postmodernist theory can be concretized in a practical form.Furthermore, this study aims at scrutinizing in detail the frequency and the possibility of the postmodernist narrative elements in the very fabric and texture of fictional narrative in general.