American Revenge Narratives: A Collection of Critical Essays

1. Introduction - Kyle Wiggins

Part I. Revenge on the Page

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

Part II. Revenge on the Screen

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