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Year 2026 · Volume 6 · Issue 5
Original Article
Fragmented Memory, Temporal Dislocation, and the Futility of War in Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five
Dr V.Kavitha1
1 Assistant Professor of English, Department of Career Development Centre, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur, Chennai, Tamilnadu, India.
Published Online: September-October 2026
Pages: 34-39
Cite this article
↗ https://www.doi.org/10.59256/ijrtmr.20260605004
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Recognition Using YOLOv8n," 2026 IEEE Madhya Pradesh Section Conference (MPCON), Gwalior, India, 2026, pp. 956-961, doi:
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21. S. Dash, S. Negi, S. Alam, A. K. Mandak, D. Shukla and S. Kumar, "Explainable Multi-Task Deep Learning for Multimodal Medical
Diagnosis Using Imaging and Clinical Data," 2026 IEEE Madhya Pradesh Section Conference (MPCON), Gwalior, India, 2026, pp. 416-
421, doi: 10.1109/MPCON69668.2026.11508169.
22. S. Dash, S. S. Dhal, S. Das, S. Fadikar and N. Kumar, "Deep Learning-Based Neural Machine Translation and Character Conversion for
Odia to English Text Using Transformer Architectures," 2026 IEEE Madhya Pradesh Section Conference (MPCON), Gwalior, India,
2026, pp. 379-384, doi: 10.1109/MPCON69668.2026.11508550.23. S. R. Mishra and S. Dash, "AI-Driven Remote Health Monitoring for Predicting Diabetes and Heart Diseases Using ULMCSO and PGND
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28. Whitehead, A. (2009). Memory: New critical idiom. Routledge.
2. B. P. Mahapatra, R. Panda, R. Das, and S. Dash, "Assessing the Role of Game-Based Learning in Improving Academic Achievement and
Student Motivation," Int. J. Artif. Intell. Mach. Learn., vol. 6, no. 1S, pp. 276–291, 2026.
3. Caruth, C. (1996). Unclaimed experience: Trauma, narrative, and history. Johns Hopkins University Press.
4. Felman, S., & Laub, D. (1992). Testimony: Crises of witnessing in literature, psychoanalysis, and history. Routledge.
5. Heller, J. (1961). Catch-22. Simon & Schuster.
6. Herman, J. L. (1992). Trauma and recovery. Basic Books.
7. Hirsch, M. (2008). The generation of postmemory. Poetics Today, 29(1), 103–128.
8. Hutcheon, L. (1988). A poetics of postmodernism: History, theory, fiction. Routledge.
9. K. D. Kumar, S. Dash, and R. K. Ganiya, "Ensemble Deep Learning Technique for Robust Seizure Detection Using Integrating
Convolutional and Recurrent Neural Networks with Advanced Optimization Techniques," Int. J. Basic Appl. Sci., vol. 14, no. SI-1, pp.
510–518, 2025, doi: 10.14419/04tp2d60.
10. K. Dileep Kumar, S. Dash, and R. K. Ganiya, "An Effective Epileptic Seizure Detection Using Graph Neural Networks," J. Inf. Syst. Eng.
Manag., vol. 10, no. 2S, pp. 157–166, 2025, doi: 10.52783/jisem.v10i2s.210.
11. LaCapra, D. (2001). Writing history, writing trauma. Johns Hopkins University Press.
12. Laub, D. (1995). Truth and testimony: The process and the struggle. In C. Caruth (Ed.), Trauma: Explorations in memory (pp. 61–75).
Johns Hopkins University Press.
13. Nora, P. (1989). Between memory and history: Les lieux de mémoire. Representations, 26, 7–24.
14. O’Brien, T. (1990). The things they carried. Houghton Mifflin.
15. R. Patnaik, P. S. Rath, S. Padhy, and S. Dash, "Enhancing Lung Cancer Diagnosis through Advanced CT Scan Image Analysis: A Novel
Approach Using Mask-EffNet," Nanotechnol. Perceptions, vol. 20, no. S5, pp. 1–26, 2024.
16. Remarque, E. M. (1929). All quiet on the Western front. Little, Brown and Company.
17. Ricoeur, P. (2004). Memory, history, forgetting. University of Chicago Press.
18. S. Dash, A. Padhi, B. Panda, E. Kumari, N. Kumar and L. Sahu, "Bilingual Scene Text Recognition for Odia and English in Multilingual
Environments," 2026 IEEE Madhya Pradesh Section Conference (MPCON), Gwalior, India, 2026, pp. 868-873, doi:
10.1109/MPCON69668.2026.11508510.
19. S. Dash, S. K. Behera, P. K. Sahu and K. Panda, "Deep Neural Networks for Accurate Detection of Nail Disorders," 2025 International
Conference on Information, Implementation, and Innovation in Technology (I2ITCON), Pune, India, 2025, pp. 1-6, doi:
10.1109/I2ITCON65200.2025.11210454.
20. S. Dash, S. K. Sinha, K. Vineesha, P. S. Nanda and N. Kumar, "Intelligent Navigation Control Through Visionbased Hand Gesture
Recognition Using YOLOv8n," 2026 IEEE Madhya Pradesh Section Conference (MPCON), Gwalior, India, 2026, pp. 956-961, doi:
10.1109/MPCON69668.2026.11508361.
21. S. Dash, S. Negi, S. Alam, A. K. Mandak, D. Shukla and S. Kumar, "Explainable Multi-Task Deep Learning for Multimodal Medical
Diagnosis Using Imaging and Clinical Data," 2026 IEEE Madhya Pradesh Section Conference (MPCON), Gwalior, India, 2026, pp. 416-
421, doi: 10.1109/MPCON69668.2026.11508169.
22. S. Dash, S. S. Dhal, S. Das, S. Fadikar and N. Kumar, "Deep Learning-Based Neural Machine Translation and Character Conversion for
Odia to English Text Using Transformer Architectures," 2026 IEEE Madhya Pradesh Section Conference (MPCON), Gwalior, India,
2026, pp. 379-384, doi: 10.1109/MPCON69668.2026.11508550.23. S. R. Mishra and S. Dash, "AI-Driven Remote Health Monitoring for Predicting Diabetes and Heart Diseases Using ULMCSO and PGND
Models," in Hyper-Intelligent Networks: Exploring the Future of Connectivity for Society 5.0, pp. 219–247, 2026.
24. Scarry, E. (1985). The body in pain: The making and unmaking of the world. Oxford University Press.
25. Sontag, S. (2003). Regarding the pain of others. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
26. Van der Kolk, B. A. (2014). The body keeps the score: Brain, mind, and body in the healing of trauma. Viking.
27. Vonnegut, K. (1969). Slaughterhouse-five, or The children’s crusade: A duty-dance with death. Dial Press.
28. Whitehead, A. (2009). Memory: New critical idiom. Routledge.
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