American revenge narratives : a collection of critical essays /: a collection of critical essays. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Kyle Wiggins.
• Editors: Wiggins, Kyle
• Contents: 1. Introduction – Kyle WigginsPart I. Revenge on the Page2. Wakening 'The Eyes of Dreamers': Revenge in Carson McCullers's The Ballad of the Sad Café – Lisa Hoffman-Reyes3. Toni Morrison's Beloved: A Tragedy of Revenge and Reparation – Maureen E. Ruprecht Fadem4. Masculinity in Don DeLilllo's White Noise: Mapping the Self, Killing the Other – Michael James Rizza5. From Revenge to Restorative Justice in Louise Erdrich's The Plague of Doves, TheRound House, and LaRose – Seema Kurup6. The Great (White) Wail: Percival Everett's The Water Cure and Thomas Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia – Beth A. McCoy7. The Modern American Revenge Story – Kyle WigginsPart II. Revenge on the Screen8. 'What if nature were trying to get back at us?': Animals as Agents of Nature's Revenge in Horror Cinema – Michael Fuchs9. A Cinema of Vengeance: Vietnam Veterans, Traumatic Recovery, and Historical Revisionism in 1980s Hollywood – Marc Diefenderfer10. Vengeance is Mine: Gender and Vigilante Justice in Mainstream Cinema – Paul Doro11. 'Revenge, at first though sweet, / Bitter ere long back on itself recoils:' Patriarchy and Revenge in Unforgiven and True Grit – Jim Daems12. Tearing Down the Eiffel Tower: Post-9/11 Fears and Fantasies in Taken – Terence McSweeney.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (colour)
• Subjects: 810.9353; American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; American literature -- 21st century -- History and criticism; Revenge in literature; Revenge in motion pictures
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319937465
• Related ISBNs: 9783319937458
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