A Trauma Artist examines how O'Brien's works variously rewrite his own traumatization during the war in Vietnam as a never-ending Þction 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 metaÞction, and post-World War II American political uncertainties and public violence. Based on recent conversations with O'Brien, previously published interviews, and new readings of all his works through 1999, this book is the Þrst study to concentrate on the role and representation of trauma as the central focus of all O'Brien's works, whether situated in Vietnam, in post-Vietnam America, or in the imagination of protagonists suspended between the two. By doing so, Heberle redeÞnes O'Brien as a major U.S. writer of the late twentieth century whose representations of self-damaging experiences and narratives of recovery characterize not only the war in Vietnam but also relationships between fathers and sons and men and women in the post-traumatic culture of the contemporary United States.
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“ . . . An enlightening journey through the life and works of a key voice in contemporary American literature.” -- Thomas Myers, author of Walking Point: American Narratives of Vietnam
“No one after Heberle will probably ever read O'Brien's texts as thoroughly or meticulously as he has ” -- Philip Beidler, author of American Literature and the Experience of Vietnam and Re-Writing America: Vietnam Authors in Their Generation
“No one after Heberle will probably ever read O'Brien's texts as thoroughly or meticulously as he has ” -- Philip Beidler, author of American Literature and the Experience of Vietnam and Re-Writing America: Vietnam Authors in Their Generation
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Mark Heberle is associate professor of English at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. He is the coeditor of Infant Tongues: The Voice of the Child in Literature. His own year in Vietnam, he says, “remains the most unforgettable experience in my life.”
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