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American Revenge Narratives

A Collection of Critical Essays

von: Kyle Wiggins
CHF 100.50
Verlag:	Palgrave Macmillan
Format:	PDF
Veröffentl.:	21.07.2018
ISBN/EAN:	9783319937465
Sprache:	englisch

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Titelbeschreibung

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 andthrives 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.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Autorenportrait

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.

Sonderbeitrag

Offers the first dedicated, multi-media critical study of contemporary American revenge narratives Utilizes a range of analytic methodologies ranging from Marxist to historical materialist, third-wave feminist critique to critical race theory Argues that the revenge genre can be read as a national catalog of socio-political debts

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Unpublished endorsement

“From The Iliad to John Wick: Chapter 2, what could be more primal, more elemental than the revenge narrative? In this exemplary collection, the contributors find that in contemporary American literature and film the passion for revenge, already ugly, has become even uglier, has evolved from a desire to get even into a mania that cannot be satisfied. Taken together, these essays constitute a landmark study of both the revenge genre and the nation’s deeply troubling ‘love of vengeance.’” (Brady Harrison, Professor, Department of English, University of Montana, USA)“American Revenge Narratives offers a timely intervention into the history and scholarship of violent payback. Investigating diverse literary and cinematic genres, its contributors not only disclose the complex consequences of contemporary revenge fiction, but also tarry with its ambiguous mix of justice and vigilantism. Essential reading for understanding the aesthetics, politics, and ethics of American retribution fantasies.” (Amy Rust, Associate Professor & Graduate Coordinator, Department of Humanities & Cultural Studies, University of South Florida, USA)