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{{Byline|last=Broer|first=Lawrence R.|abstract=No two contemporary writers have looked harder or with greater analytical intelligence at the forces undermining the American Dream than Norman Mailer and Kurt Vonnegut. Whatever individual differences of vision or temperament may separate these brooding seers, Mailer, the mystic Existentialist, and Kurt Vonnegut, the comic Absurdist, serve as shamans, spiritual medicine men whose function is to expose various forms of societal madness—dispelling the evil spirits of greed, irresponsible mechanization, and aggression while encouraging reflection and the will to positive change.|url=https://prmlr.us/mr08broe}}
{{Byline|last=Broer|first=Lawrence R.|abstract=No two contemporary writers have looked harder or with greater analytical intelligence at the forces undermining the American Dream than Norman Mailer and Kurt Vonnegut. Whatever individual differences of vision or temperament may separate these brooding seers, Mailer, the mystic Existentialist, and Kurt Vonnegut, the comic Absurdist, serve as shamans, spiritual medicine men whose function is to expose various forms of societal madness—dispelling the evil spirits of greed, irresponsible mechanization, and aggression while encouraging reflection and the will to positive change.|url=https://prmlr.us/mr08broe}}
==Works Cited==
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* {{cite journal |last= Broer |first= Lawrence R. |title= Images of the Shaman in the Works of Kurt Vonnegut. |url= |journal= Dionysus in Literature |volume= |issue= |date= 1994|pages= |publisher= Bowling Green State UP|location= Bowling Green, KY|access-date= |ref=harv }}
* {{cite web |url= http://www.alternet.org/story/14919/  |title= Vonnegut at 80|last= Hoppe|first= David |date= October 2005 |website= AlterNet 2|publisher= |access-date= February 24, 2008|quote= |ref=harv }}
* {{cite book |last= Joyce|first= James|date= 1916|title= Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. |url= |location= New York|publisher= Viking |pages= |isbn= |author-link= |ref=harv }}
* {{cite news |last= Mailer|first= Norman|date= 23 January 2005|title= Empire Building: America and Its War with the Invisible Kingdom of Satan|url= |work= The Sunday Times|location= London|access-date= |ref=harv }}
* {{cite journal |last= Mailer|first= Norman|title= The White Negro|url= |journal= Advertisements for Myself|volume= |issue= |date= 1959|pages= 337-358|publisher= Putnam|location= New York|access-date= |ref=harv }}
* {{cite book |last= Mailer|first= Norman|date= 2003|title= Why Are We at War?|url= |location= New York|publisher= Random House|pages= |isbn= |author-link= |ref=harv }}
* {{cite AV media|title= Norman Mailer: Mailer on Mailer.|date= 2000|series= American Masters Series|medium= Windstar DVD|publisher= PBS|ref=harv }}
* {{cite book |last= Vonnegut|first= Kurt|date= 1991|title= Fates Worse Than Death|url= |location= New York|publisher= Berkley Books |pages= |isbn= |author-link= |ref=harv }}
* {{cite web |url= http://www.inthesetimes.com/comments.php?id􏰀38_0_4_0_C|title= Kurt Vonnegut vs. the !&#*!@: Interview with Joel Bleifuss.|last= Vonnegut|first= Kurt|date= 27 January 2003|website= In These Times|publisher= |access-date= February 24, 2008|quote= |ref=harv }}
* {{cite book |last= Vonnegut|first= Kurt|date= 2005|title= A Man without a Country|url= |location= New York|publisher= Seven Stories Press|pages= |isbn= |author-link= |ref=harv }}
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