Kurt Vonnegut’s America

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Kurt Vonnegut’s America will introduce students to Kurt Vonnegut’s novels, short stories, essays, and plays, as well as critical approaches to his work. Students will examine Vonnegut’s career and life as they speak to larger themes in American Studies and examine several aspects of this author’s unique view of America, which challenged the easy embracing of complicated values like freedom and equality as symbols that America has seen disconnected from their meanings and origins.