American Revenge Narratives

<p>1. Introduction – Kyle Wiggins.- 2.&nbsp;Wakening “The Eyes of Dreamers”: Revenge in Carson McCullers’s&nbsp;The Ballad of the Sad Café&nbsp;– Lisa Hoffman-Reyes.- 3. Toni Morrison’s&nbsp;Beloved:&nbsp;A Tragedy of Revenge and Reparation – Maureen E. Ruprecht Fadem.- 4. Masculinity in Don DeLilllo’s&nbsp;White Noise: Mapping the Self, Killing the Other – Michael James Rizza.- 5. From Revenge to Restorative Justice in Louise Erdrich’s&nbsp;The Plague of Doves,&nbsp;The&nbsp;Round House, and&nbsp;LaRose&nbsp;– Seema Kurup.- 6. The Great (White) Wail: Percival Everett’s&nbsp;The Water Cure&nbsp;and Thomas Jefferson’s&nbsp;Notes on the State of Virginia&nbsp;– 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 –&nbsp;Marc Diefenderfer.- 10. Vengeance is Mine: Gender and Vigilante Justice in Mainstream Cinema – Paul Doro.-&nbsp;11. “Revenge, at first though sweet, / Bitter ere long back on itself recoils:”&nbsp;Patriarchy and Revenge in&nbsp;Unforgiven&nbsp;and&nbsp;True Grit&nbsp;– Jim Daems.-&nbsp;12. Tearing Down the Eiffel Tower: Post-9/11 Fears and Fantasies in&nbsp;Taken&nbsp;–&nbsp;Terence McSweeney.</p>