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02059aam a22003618a 4500 001 8B38E77CD2CD11E0A63AA5D16AFF544E 003 SILO 005 20110830010141 008 110103s2011 miu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2010054417 020 $a 073775818X (pbk.) 020 $a 9780737758184 (pbk.) 020 $a 0737758171 (hardcover) 020 $a 9780737758177 (hardcover) 040 $a DLC $c DLC $d SILO 050 00 $a PS3572.O5 $b S6387 2011 245 0 $a War in Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five / $c Claudia Durst Johnson, book editor. 260 $a Detroit : $b Greenhaven Press, $c c2011. 300 $a 167 p. : $b ill. ; $c 23 cm. 490 0 $a Social issues in literature 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Background on Kurt Vonnegut -- Vonnegut's family and the success of Slaughterhouse-Five -- Vonnegut's despair about war at the end of his life -- Vonnegut on his writing and life -- Alaughterhouse-Five and war -- Facing the cruelties of civilization and its wars -- Time travel as a brief escape from war memories -- Billy's time travel is not science fictional but psychological -- Kindness int he face of cruelty -- The moral problem of Billy's fantasies -- A nontraditional way of conveying chaos -- Vonnegut's denunciation of Tralfamadore -- Deromanticizing war -- The war novel: from heroic epic to grim reality -- Why the innocent suffer -- Contemporary perspectives on war -- Uncovering military secrets about the deaths of Iraqi civilians -- Two wars: physical andpsychological -- Casualties of the mind -- Child soldiers. 600 10 $a Vonnegut, Kurt. $t Slaughterhouse-five. 650 0 $a War in literature. 700 1 $a Johnson, Claudia Durst, $d 1938- 941 $a 5 952 $l HYAX325 $d 20180623024230.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20180201061831.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20150506011852.0 952 $l PNAX964 $d 20140311011036.0 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20110830010439.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=8B38E77CD2CD11E0A63AA5D16AFF544E 994 $a C0 $b JIDInitiate Another SILO Locator Search