American Revenge Narratives : a Collection of Critical Essays / edited by Kyle Wiggins.
Wiggins, Kyle, editor.
2018
HM621-HM656
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Title
American Revenge Narratives : a Collection of Critical Essays / edited by Kyle Wiggins.
ISBN
9783319937465
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93746-5
Published
Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (XV, 288 pages 4 illustrations in color.) : illustrations
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-319-93746-5 doi
Call Number
HM621-HM656
Dewey Decimal Classification
306.0973
Summary
American Revenge Narratives critically examines the nation's vengeful storytelling tradition. With essays on late twentieth and twenty-first century fiction, film, and television, it maps the coordinates of the revenge genre's contemporary reinvention across American culture. By surveying American revenge narratives, this book measures how contemporary payback plots appraise the nation's political, social, and economic inequities. The volume's essays collectively make the case that retribution is a defining theme of post-war American culture and an artistic vehicle for critique. In another sense, this book presents a scholarly coming to terms with the nation's love for vengeance. By investigating recent iterations of an ancient genre, contributors explore how the revenge narrative evolves and thrives within American literary and filmic imagination. Taken together, the book's diverse chapters attempt to understand American culture's seemingly inexhaustible production of vengeful tales.
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1. Introduction
Kyle Wiggins
2. Wakening?The Eyes of Dreamers?: Revenge in Carson McCullers's The Ballad of the Sad Café
Lisa Hoffman-Reyes
3. Toni Morrison's Beloved: A Tragedy of Revenge and Reparation
Maureen E. Ruprecht Fadem
4. Masculinity in Don DeLilllo's White Noise: Mapping the Self, Killing the Other
Michael James Rizza
5. From Revenge to Restorative Justice in Louise Erdrich's The Plague of Doves, The Round House, and LaRose
Seema Kurup
6. The Great (White) Wail: Percival Everett's The Water Cure and Thomas Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia
Beth A. McCoy
7. The Modern American Revenge Story
Kyle Wiggins
8.?What if nature were trying to get back at us??: Animals as Agents of Nature's Revenge in Horror Cinema
Michael Fuchs
9. A Cinema of Vengeance: Vietnam Veterans, Traumatic Recovery, and Historical Revisionism in 1980s Hollywood
Marc Diefenderfer
10. Vengeance is Mine: Gender and Vigilante Justice in Mainstream Cinema
Paul Doro
11.?Revenge, at first though sweet, / Bitter ere long back on itself recoils:? Patriarchy and Revenge in Unforgiven and True Grit
Jim Daems
12. Tearing Down the Eiffel Tower: Post-9/11 Fears and Fantasies in Taken
Terence McSweeney.

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