American Revenge Narratives (eBook)

Kyle Wiggins is Lecturer of Rhetoric at Boston University, USA, where he teaches courses on writing, argumentation, and research methods. His work has appeared in Postmodern Culture, Great Plains Quarterly, Studies in the Novel, and other publications.

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, The Round 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