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Jailbird

Cover of first edition (hardcover)
Author	Kurt Vonnegut
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	Novel
Publisher	Delacorte Press
Publication date	1979
Media type	Print (hardcover and paperback)
ISBN	0-385-28627-9
OCLC	233790605

Jailbird is a novel by Kurt Vonnegut, originally published in 1979; it is regarded as Kurt Vonnegut's "Watergate novel." The plot involves elements that include the U.S. labor movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the dialectical back-and-forth of labor and management, Marxism and capitalism in the 1930s and 1940s, even up to the imperiousness of the Nixon administration. Jailbird revolves around Walter F. Starbuck, a man recently released from a minimum-security prison in Georgia after serving time for his comically small role in the Watergate Scandal. Jailbird is written as a standard memoir, revealing Starbuck's present situation, then coming full circle to tell the story of his first two days after being released from prison.

Through Walter F. Starbuck (and near-rambling biographical sketches of the various characters referenced in the novel) Jailbird concerns itself primarily with the history of the American labor movement, while exposing the more egregious flaws of corporate America, the American political system, the Red Scare/McCarthyistic histrionics of the late 1950s and early 1960s, and both capitalistic and communistic theory.

Jailbird, as a novel, introduced Vonnegut's fictitious mega-corporation, RAMJAC. Vonnegut humorously suggested that RAMJAC owned 19% of all businesses in the United States of America at its zenith. Throughout the novel, whenever a business is mentioned, Vonnegut frequently mentions RAMJAC in a parenthetical comment: such as, "Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company (A RAMJAC Corporation)." RAMJAC may have been Vonnegut's response to large corporations and their television advertisements around the time of the novel's publication, in which they would routinely detail the many familiar brand names under their corporate umbrella.

Jailbird also features a brief cameo by Kilgore Trout, a recurring, fan-favorite Vonnegutian character known for writing science fiction novels and bizarre short stories. However, in this unique appearance, "Kilgore Trout" is revealed to be the pseudonym of a character in prison, deliberately contradicting the autobiographical details of Trout's life as delineated in both earlier and subsequent Vonnegut novels, as Vonnegut began to flirt with the unreliable narrator mechanism so en vogue by the late '70s and '80s.

Literary significance and reception

The New York Times Book Review called Jailbird Vonnegut's "Sermon on the Mount".

'Vintage Vonnegut!' – Time magazine

'There are enough kernels in Jailbird to feed the entire population of an intellectually ravenous world.' – Los Angeles Times

'Jailbird definitely mounts up on angelic wings – in its speed, in its sparkle, and in its high-flying intent. A profoundly humane comedy.' – Chicago Tribune Book World

References

External links

• Jailbird at Goodreads

English Journal

• Older and wiser: older adults' episodic word memory benefits from sentence study contexts.

• Matzen LE1, Benjamin AS.
• Psychology and aging.Psychol Aging.2013 Sep;28(3):754-67. doi: 10.1037/a0032945. Epub 2013 Jul 8.
• A hallmark of adaptive cognition is the ability to modulate learning in response to the demands posed by different types of tests and different types of materials. Here we evaluate how older adults process out-of-context words and sentences differently by examining patterns of memory errors. In two
• PMID 23834493

• A decrease in conjunction error rates across lags on a continuous recognition task: a robust pattern.

• Jones TC1, Atchley P.
• Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006).Q J Exp Psychol (Hove).2008 Nov;61(11):1726-40. doi: 10.1080/17470210701695843.
• In four experiments, the lag retention interval from parent words (e.g., blackmail, jailbird) to a conjunction word (blackbird) was manipulated in a continuous recognition task. Alterations to the basic procedure of Jones and Atchley (2002) were employed in Experiments 1 and 2 to bolster recollectio
• PMID 18942037

• The memory conjunction error paradigm: normative data for conjunction triplets.

• Leding JK1, Lampinen JM, Edwards NW, Odegard TN.
• Behavior research methods.Behav Res Methods.2007 Nov;39(4):920-5.
• In the typical memory conjunction experiment, participants are presented with two "parent" stimulus items (e.g., blackmail and jailbird) that are later recombined to form a "conjunction lure" (e.g., blackbird). This paradigm is an efficient way to test false memories because participants frequently
• PMID 18183909

Japanese Journal

• Kurt Vonnegut の Jailbird が語るアメリカの歴史

• 本山 ふじ子
• 研究紀要 (23), 35-45, 2000-02-25
• NAID 110009851450

• Judgment Day in America--An Exegesis of Kurt Vonnegut′s Jailbird

• O′Rourke D.M.
• 日本大学人文科学研究所研究紀要 (41), p27-43, 1991
• NAID 40002978656

• Kurt Vonnegut著Jailbird

• 田中 啓史
• 英文学思潮 54, 117-122, 1981
• NAID 110006231555

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