American Revenge Narratives

Front Matter ....Pages i-xv
 Introduction  (Kyle Wiggins)....Pages 1-18
Front Matter ....Pages 19-19
 Wakening “The Eyes of Dreamers”: Revenge in Carson McCullers’s The Ballad of the Sad Café  (Lisa Hoffman-Reyes)....Pages 21-40
 Toni Morrison’s Beloved: A Tragedy of Revenge and Reparation  (Maureen E. Ruprecht Fadem)....Pages 41-80
 Masculinity in Don DeLillo’s White Noise: Mapping the Self, Killing the Other  (Michael James Rizza)....Pages 81-98
 From Revenge to Restorative Justice in Louise Erdrich’s The Plague of Doves, The Round House, and LaRose  (Seema Kurup)....Pages 99-117
 The Great (White) Wail: Percival Everett’s The Water Cure and Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on the State of Virginia  (Beth A. McCoy)....Pages 119-151
 The Modern American Revenge Story  (Kyle Wiggins)....Pages 153-173
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 “What if Nature Were Trying to Get Back at Us?”: Animals as Agents of Nature’s Revenge in Horror Cinema  (Michael Fuchs)....Pages 177-206
 A Cinema of Vengeance: Vietnam Veterans, Traumatic Recovery, and Historical Revisionism in 1980s Hollywood  (Marc Diefenderfer)....Pages 207-226
 Vengeance Is Mine: Gender and Vigilante Justice in Mainstream Cinema  (Paul Doro)....Pages 227-244
 “Revenge, at First Though Sweet, / Bitter Ere Long Back on Itself Recoils”: Patriarchy and Revenge in Unforgiven and True Grit  (Jim Daems)....Pages 245-261
 Tearing Down the Eiffel Tower: Post-9/11 Fears and Fantasies in Taken  (Terence McSweeney)....Pages 263-284
Back Matter ....Pages 285-288