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A trauma artist : Tim O'Brien and the fiction of Vietnam /

Main Author: Heberle, Mark A.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©2001.
Subjects:
O'Brien, Tim, > 1946- > Criticism and interpretation.
O'Brien, Tim, > 1946- > Views on war.
O'Brien, Tim, > 1946-
O'Brien, Tim, > (1946- ...) > Critique et interprétation.
O'Brien, Tim (Schriftsteller)
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 > Literature and the war.
Post-traumatic stress disorder > United States.
War stories, American > History and criticism.
Postmodernism (Literature) > United States.
Psychic trauma in literature.
Soldiers in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Post-traumatic stress disorder.
Postmodernism (Literature)
War.
War and literature.
Vietnam-oorlog.
Posttraumatische stressstoornis.
Fictie.
Amerikaans.
Guerre du Viet-Nam (1961-1975) > Récits personnels américains.
Traumatisme > Dans la littérature.
Soldats > Dans la littérature.
Postmodernisme et littérature > États-Unis.
United States.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. Vietnam as Figure and Symptom: "We've All Been There" : A Trauma Artist ; The Fiction of Vietnam
  • Fabricating Trauma : "The Vietnam in Me" ; O'Brien's Endless War ; Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Vietnam ; PTSD and Writing ; O'Brien's Art of Trauma ; Writing Beyond Vietnam
  • A Bad War : Origins of If I Die in a Combat Zone ; Fictionalized Testimony ; O'Brien's Self-Representation: Soldier Versus Writer ; Moral Combat ; Combat Zone as Source for a Career
  • The Old Man and the Pond : Self-Displacement in Northern Lights ; Literary Mimicry: Realism, Symbolism, Allegory ; Harvey's Story: Vietnam as Tragicomedy ; Paul's Story: The Feminization of Virtue ; Novel Revisions
  • A Soldier's Dream : The Re-covering of Trauma: Paul Berlin as Tim O'Brien ; Cacciato: From Short Stories to Trauma Narrative ; "Going After Cacciato": from Catalog to Breakdown ; Paul Berlin: From Breakdown to Trauma Writing ; The Quest for Cacciato: Fantasy and the Burial of the Dead ; The Observation Post: Retraumatization and Endless Fantasy
  • The Bombs Are Real : An Ambitious Failure? ; The Traumatization of William Cowling ; Parabolic Fiction: Mutual Assured Destruction and Civil Defense ; The Nuclear Age and Vietnam ; The Failure of William Cowling
  • True War Stories : Recirculated Trauma, Endless Fiction ; The Things They Carried as Self-Revision ; "How to Tell a True War Story": Misreading Tim O'Brien ; Other Refabrications of Trauma ; "The Lives of the Dead": Bringing Them Back Alive
  • The People We Kill : Trauma, Tragedy, National Disgrace ; Metafictional Investigations ; The Breakdown of John Wade ; Tragic Revisions ; John Wade as Paradigm and Persona: Tim O'Brien's Trauma ; Psychobiography, History, and Fiction
  • Guys Just Want to Have Fun : Vietnam and the Age of Clinton ; A Dictionary of Love ; In Defense of Thomas Chippering ; PTSD as Comedy/Vietnam as Parody ; Saving Tim O'Brien: Tomcat in Love as Countertherapy
  • Conclusion. A Trauma Artist : Posttraumatic Nation ; Academic Polemics ; Responsible Dreams
  • Appendix. Diagnostic Criteria for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, DSM-IV.

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