Literature Review The theory of trauma that will be highlighted in this study has been discussed in many books, journals, and theses. Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence--from Domestic Abuse to Political Terror by Judith Herman (1992) explores trauma and places individual experience in a broader political framework, arguing that psychological trauma can only be understood in context social. The book also documents and uses the words of victims to change the way we think about and treat traumatic events and trauma victims. John Fletcher's book Freud and the Scene of Trauma (2013) helps to explain the affinity that Freud felt between psychoanalysis and literature and the privileged role of literature in the development of his thought. As far as books about the Vietnam War go, Andy Wiest's book The Vietnam War 1956-1975 (2002) is an interesting book that examines all aspects of the war, from what it felt like to be a soldier to the lasting impact of the conflict on the world around him. Furthermore, Mark Atwood Lawrence's book The Vietnam War: A Concise International History (2010) carefully considers the origins of the war by focusing on American involvement between 1965 and 1975. Finally, the book explores the complex consequences of the war, its legacy lasting in American America. books, films and political debates, as well as Vietnam's struggles with serious social and economic problems. As for theses, Julie Annette Riggs Osborn's master's thesis "Defoliating The Mind: A Transnational History Of War Fiction On Vietnam" (2007) at the University of Hawai'i offers a comparative analysis of American novels and Selected Vietnamese products produced in the years following the American war in Vietnam. Focusing on two distinct styles of literature...... middle of paper ......or P, 2000. Print.Luckhurst, Roger. The question of trauma. New York: Routledge, 2008. Print.Mintz, S., and McNeil, S. “Overview of the Vietnam War.” Digital history. 2012. Network. http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/era.cfm?eraid=18O'Brien, Tim. The things they carried. Los Angeles: Broadway Books, 1990. Print.O'Nan, Steward. The Vietnam Reader. New York: Anchor, 1998. Print.Ramadanovic, Petar. "Introduction: trauma and crisis". Postmodern Culture: An Electronic Journal of Interdisciplinary Criticism 11.2 (2001): 19. pars. Network. May 6, 2014. http://www.iath.virginia.edu/pmc/text-only/issue.101/11.2introduction.txt. Smith, Patrick. Tim O'Brien: A Critical Companion. Westport: Greenwood P, 2005. Print.Whitehead, Anne. Trauma fiction. Edinburgh UP, 2004. Print.Young, Marilyn Blatt. The Vietnam Wars 1945-1990. New York: Harper CollinsPublisher, 1991. Print.