| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| 摘要 | 第5-7页 |
| Abstract | 第7-10页 |
| Introduction | 第10-38页 |
| 1. The American Novels of World War Ⅱ as Trauma Fiction | 第10-14页 |
| 2. Literature Review | 第14-22页 |
| 3. The Social and Historical Dimensions of Trauma | 第22-34页 |
| 4. The Significance and the Approach | 第34-35页 |
| 5. Chapter Summary | 第35-38页 |
| Chapter One The Young Lions: Traumatic Experience as Historical Writing | 第38-64页 |
| ·Trauma and Anti-Semitism in the U. S. Military | 第41-51页 |
| ·Trauma and Historical Writing in The Young Lions | 第51-64页 |
| Chapter Two The Naked and the Dead: Trauma and the Loss of Identity | 第64-88页 |
| ·The Ethnic Diversity and the Challenge to American Identity | 第67-79页 |
| ·The Crisis of Identity and the Traumatized Underdogs | 第79-88页 |
| Chapter Three From Here to Eternity: Trauma and Self-Invention | 第88-113页 |
| ·The Memory of the Traumatic Experiences and the Phantom of Totalitarianism | 第90-101页 |
| ·Self-Invention as a Cure for Trauma | 第101-113页 |
| Conclusion | 第113-118页 |
| Works Cited | 第118-124页 |
