American Revenge Narratives

American Revenge Narratives

A Collection of Critical Essays

Wiggins, Kyle

Springer International Publishing AG

08/2018

288

Dura

Inglês

9783319937458

15 a 20 dias

3865


ebook

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1. Introduction - Kyle Wiggins.- 2. Wakening "The Eyes of Dreamers": Revenge in Carson McCullers's The Ballad of the Sad Cafe - 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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Revenge Genre;Revenge Fiction;Revenge Film;Revenge Television;American Revenge;vengeful desire;political reckoning;socio-economic reckoning;payback stories