''No Damn Cat, and No Damn Cradle" or Laughing in the Face of the Mushroom Cloud: The Use of Black Humor in the Work of Vonnegut, Pynchon, and De Lillo

Authors

Matthew Staton

Document Type

Honors Project

First Advisor

Dr. Scott Suter

Degree Award Date

Fall 2012

Keywords

Kurt Vonnegut, Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, Postmodern Writers, Black humor, coping device, literature review

Disciplines

American Literature | Modern Literature

Abstract

Writers like Kurt Vonnegut, Thomas Pynchon, and Don DeLillo have written books satirizing the fears of humanity, not because they are insensitive to them but because they realize that, in the face of the irreconcilable and inescapable, our only recourse is to laugh.

Recommended Citation

Staton, Matthew, "''No Damn Cat, and No Damn Cradle" or Laughing in the Face of the Mushroom Cloud: The Use of Black Humor in the Work of Vonnegut, Pynchon, and De Lillo" (2012). Honors Projects. 77.
https://digitalcommons.bridgewater.edu/honors_projects/77