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