Introduction 1
Ⅰ.Vonnegut in the Critical World： Controversy and Concurrence 4
Ⅱ.Animal Studies and Ecological Humanism 16
Ⅲ.Animal Representation in Vonnegut’s Fiction 48
Ⅳ.Structure of the Book 57
Chapter 1 Vonnegut Revisited： In an Ecological Context 62
Ⅰ.American Modern Environmental Movement 63
Ⅱ.An Ecological View of Vonnegut： Life and Influences 74
Chapter 2 Meat-eating： A Case of Humanity’s Inhumanity 96
Ⅰ.Meat-eating： A Moral lssue 98
Ⅱ.For the Sake of “Doodley-squat”： Cruelty Behind the Hamburger in Breakfast of Champions 101
Ⅲ.For the Pleasure of the Palate： Avarice and Atrocity in Hocus Pocus 110
Ⅳ.When Humans Are Hungry： Barbarity in Galapagos 123
Chapter 3 Animal Companionship： A Mirror of Human Loneliness 142
Ⅰ.The Sirens of Titan： Hatred Between Wife and Husband 147
Ⅱ.Breakfast of Champions： Estrangement of Father and Son 160
Ⅲ.Slapstick： Separation of Brother and Sister 170
Chapter 4 Across the Species Boundary： Dethroning the “Paragon of Animals” 187
Ⅰ.Slaughterhouse-Five： A Story of Blurred Boundaries 188
Ⅱ.Survivors in the Slaughterhouse 201
Ⅲ.The Man in the Zoo 209
Chapter 5 Homecoming： Return to the Animal Kingdom—in Pursuit of Ecological Integrity 224
Ⅰ.The Sirens of Titan： Flying with the Bluebirds 228
Ⅱ.Galapagos： Farewell， Big Brain 242
Conclusion 258
Works Cited 267
Abbreviations 285
Acknowledgments 286