Introduction
Chapter One
Repression to Reconciliation: Coming to Terms with the
Traumatic Past
1. Embodying the Traumatic Memories of Victimization in
Getting Out
2. Recalling the Traumatic Memory of Maternal Loss in
Traveler in the Dark
Chapter Two
Nostalgia to Disillusionment: Mourning the Wistful Past
1. Lamenting Loss of Marriage and Friendship in
Third and Oak
2. Mourning the Western Outlaw Era in The Holdup
3. Deromanticizing the Frontier Hero in Loving Daniel
Boone
Chapter Three
Avoidance to Confrontation: Making Sense of the Fictional Past .-
1. Unearthing a Past with No Self-control in 'night, Mother ..
2. Piercing the Net of the Imaginary Past in Trudy Blue ..
Conclusion
Works Cited
Postscript