LEADER 04683nam 2200697Ia 450 001 9910819828503321 005 20240516115841.0 010 $a1-58729-328-5 035 $a(CKB)111056486862718 035 $a(EBL)859278 035 $a(OCoLC)50322405 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000261843 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11238143 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000261843 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10269042 035 $a(PQKB)11655429 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC859278 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL859278 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10354454 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111056486862718 100 $a20001128d2001 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 12$aA trauma artist $eTim O'Brien and the fiction of Vietnam /$fMark A. Heberle 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aIowa City $cUniversity of Iowa Press$dc2001 215 $a1 online resource (375 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-87745-761-1 311 $a0-87745-760-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 325-335) and index. 327 $aPreface; Introduction: Vietnam as Figure and Symptom: "We've All Been There"; A Trauma Artist; The Fiction of Vietnam; 1 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; 2 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; 3 The Old Man and the Pond; Self-Displacement in ""Northern Lights""; Literary Mimicry: Realism, Symbolism, Allegory 327 $aHarvey's Story: Vietnam as TragicomedyPaul's Story: The Feminization of Virtue; Novel Revisions; 4 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; 5 The Bombs Are Real; An Ambitious Failure?; The Traumatization of William Cowling; Parabolic Fiction: Mutual Assured Destruction and Civil Defense 327 $a""The Nuclear Age"" and VietnamThe Failure of William Cowling; 6 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; 7 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; 8 Guys Just Want to Have Fun; Vietnam and the Age of Clinton 327 $aA Dictionary of LoveIn 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""; Notes; References; Index 330 $aA 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. 606 $aVietnam War, 1961-1975$xLiterature and the war 606 $aPost-traumatic stress disorder$zUnited States 606 $aWar stories, American$xHistory and criticism 606 $aPostmodernism (Literature)$zUnited States 606 $aPsychic trauma in literature 606 $aSoldiers in literature 615 0$aVietnam War, 1961-1975$xLiterature and the war. 615 0$aPost-traumatic stress disorder 615 0$aWar stories, American$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aPostmodernism (Literature) 615 0$aPsychic trauma in literature. 615 0$aSoldiers in literature. 676 $a813.54 676 $a813/.54 700 $aHeberle$b Mark A$01605318 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910819828503321 996 $aA trauma artist$93930490 997 $aUNINA