Exposing social constructions in Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle
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Exposing social constructions in Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle through metareligion

Bokononism is a fictional religion Vonnegut brings into his narrative, Cat’s Cradle (1963), to create a self-conscious novel known as metafiction. This innovative mode of writing narratives, along with providing a critique of their own methods of construction, deals with the external real world to...

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Main Authors:	Babaei, Abdolrazagh, Wan Yahya, Wan Roselezam
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Universiti Putra Malaysia Press 2013
Online Access:	http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/40745/ http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/40745/1/17%20Page%20227-238%20%28JSSH-0918-2013%29.pdf

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