American Revenge Narratives
American Revenge Narratives
American Revenge Narratives critically examines the nations vengeful storytelling tradition. With essays on late twentieth and twenty-first century fiction, film, and television, it maps the coordinates of the revenge genres contemporary reinvention across American culture. By surveying American revenge narratives, this book measures how contemporary payback plots appraise the nations political, social, and economic inequities. The volumes 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 nations 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 books diverse chapters attempt to understand American cultures seemingly inexhaustible production of vengeful tales.
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