| Acknowledgements | 第1-7页 |
| Abstract | 第7-9页 |
| 内容摘要 | 第9-10页 |
| Introduction | 第10-15页 |
| Chapter One Kurt Vonnegut and Slaughterhouse-Five | 第15-21页 |
| ·The Brief Presentation of Kurt Vonnegut's Life and Career | 第15-18页 |
| ·The Draft of Slaughterhouse-Five | 第18-21页 |
| Chapter Two Trauma Theory | 第21-31页 |
| ·What is Trauma? | 第22-24页 |
| ·The Development of Trauma Conceptualization | 第24-27页 |
| ·Previous Conceptualizations of Trauma | 第24-26页 |
| ·Current Conceptualizations | 第26-27页 |
| ·Trauma Studies in the Humanities | 第27-29页 |
| ·Trauma and Fiction | 第29-31页 |
| Chapter Three Writing Trauma and Witnessing History | 第31-52页 |
| ·Causes of Trauma in Slaughterhouse-Five | 第32-35页 |
| ·Symptoms of Trauma from Billy Pilgrim | 第35-41页 |
| ·Doublethink | 第36-38页 |
| ·Constriction | 第38-40页 |
| ·Disconnection | 第40-41页 |
| ·Traumatic Memory and Testimony of History | 第41-49页 |
| ·Memory and Trauma | 第42-44页 |
| ·Fact and Fiction | 第44-46页 |
| ·Witnessing of the Dresden Bombing | 第46-49页 |
| ·Humanity in Slaughterhouse-Five | 第49-52页 |
| Chapter Four Literary Styles and Trauma Theory | 第52-58页 |
| ·Intertextuality and Trauma | 第52-56页 |
| ·Repetition and Trauma | 第56-58页 |
| Chapter Five Working Through Trauma | 第58-64页 |
| ·The Link Between Billy and His family | 第59-60页 |
| ·"Working through" by means of writing | 第60-64页 |
| Conclusion | 第64-66页 |
| Notes | 第66-72页 |
| Bibliography | 第72-74页 |
