Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Rhetorical Interventions and Literary Politics 3
5. The Double Hook: Miracle, Mystery, and Authority 28
6. Beautiful Losers: Escape from Freedom 47
7. The New Ancestors: Politics and Private Life 61
8. Badlands: Remembering and Forgiving the Father’s Past 80
9. Burning Water: Serious Motives for Play 97
10. The Handmaid’s Tale: Dystopia and the Paradoxes of Power 110
11. Conclusion 130
12. Works Cited 137
13. Index 143