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By reading Joseph Heller’s Catch-22, Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five, and Don DeLillo’s Falling Man, I seek to examine the writer’s function and the role of language in relation to trauma, not only to prove that narrating trauma (through various forms of language; speaking, writing, or performing) is inevitable for the traumatized to work through that trauma but also to bear witness “with others” and show how authority, history, ideologies, and grand discourses continue to undermine, distort, and marginalize individual stories of trauma. While the incomprehensibility of trauma, the representational limits of language, and the dilemma that “to speak is impossible, and not to speak is impossible,\" all make the task of narrating trauma difficult and perhaps impossible, I argue that the novels I discuss nonetheless testify to the writers’ belief that language and writing constitute a significant site where “knowledge about death and life, loss and recovery, trauma and survival, and the mysterious possibility of their coexistence emerge” (Di Prete 500). Viewing trauma as future-oriented rather than past-oriented, this dissertation attempts to unravel the intricate relationship between trauma and language that writers demonstrate through the act of writing about aporetic impasses surrounding such uninterpretable historical events as WWII and 9/11."]},{"key":"dc:format","label":"Dc Format","values":["application/pdf"]},{"key":"dc:title","label":"Title","values":["Trauma, Dilemma, Language, and the Crisis of Narrative in the Works of Joseph Heller, Kurt Vonnegut, and Don Delillo"]}]}],"canonical_facts":{"dc:contributor":["Schmid, David","English"],"dc:creator":["Lee, Hye Jin"],"dc:date":["2019-07-29T15:53:38Z","2019","2019-05-17 14:55:50"],"dc:description":["Ph.D.","This dissertation explores war and terror-related traumas in post-WWII American novels to recognize particular histories that are outside the boundaries of language and representation and the frames of conventional narrative structures. 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