| Description |
1 online resource (xxvii, 344 pages) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-335) and index. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
A Trauma Artist examines how O'Brien's works variously rewrite his own traumatization during the war in Vietnam as a never-ending fiction that paradoxically "recovers" personal experience by both recapturing and (re)disguising it. Mark Heberle considers O'Brien's career as a writer through the prisms of post-traumatic stress disorder, postmodernist metafiction, and post-World War II American political uncertainties and public violence. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
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Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
O'Brien, Tim, 1946- -- Criticism and interpretation.
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O'Brien, Tim, 1946-
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O'Brien, Tim, 1946- (OCoLC)fst00151053
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Vietnam War (1961-1975) (OCoLC)fst01431664
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O'Brien, Tim (Schriftsteller)
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Literature and the war.
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Post-traumatic stress disorder -- United States.
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War stories, American -- History and criticism.
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Postmodernism (Literature) -- United States.
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Psychic trauma in literature.
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Soldiers in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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Post-traumatic stress disorder. (OCoLC)fst01072762
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Postmodernism (Literature) (OCoLC)fst01073181
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Psychic trauma in literature. (OCoLC)fst01081229
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Soldiers in literature. (OCoLC)fst01125333
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War. (OCoLC)fst01170328
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War and literature. (OCoLC)fst01170442
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War stories, American. (OCoLC)fst01170631
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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Vietnam-oorlog.
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Posttraumatische stressstoornis.
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Fictie.
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Amerikaans.
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Vietnamkrieg.
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1961-1975
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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War.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Heberle, Mark A. Trauma artist. Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©2001 0877457603 (DLC) 00067478 |
| ISBN |
1587293285 (electronic bk.) |
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9781587293283 (electronic bk.) |
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