Posthumanism in the Novels of Kurt Vonnegut

<p>Posthumanism in the Novels of Kurt Vonnegut: Matter That Complains So re-examines the prevailing critical consensus that Kurt Vonnegut was a humanist writer. While more difficult elements of his work have often been the subject of scholarly attention the tendency amongst critics writing on Vonnegut is to disavow them or to subsume them within a liberal humanist framework. When Vonnegut's work is read from a posthumanist perspective however the productive paradoxes of his work are more fully realised. Drawing on New Materialist Eco-Critical and Systems Theory methodologies this book highlights posthumanist themes in six of Vonnegut's most famous novels and emphasises the ways in which Vonnegut troubles human/non-human natural/artificial and material/discursive hierarchical binaries</p>