Tim Gautreaux’s The Missing:

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" Tim Gautreaux’s The Missing: "
L. Lamar Nisly

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1081497
Doc. No	:	LA125126
Call No	:	‭10.1163/156852911X547529‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	L. Lamar Nisly
Title & Author	:	Tim Gautreaux’s The Missing: [Article] : Journeys of Vengeance or Belonging?\ L. Lamar Nisly
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Religion and the Arts
Date	:	2011
Volume/ Issue Number	:	15/1-2
Page No	:	193–209
Abstract	:	Louisiana Catholic author Tim Gautreaux engages questions of violence and revenge in his two most recent novels, The Clearing (2003) and The Missing (2009). In particular, engaging the popular myth of redemptive violence, The Missing explores the attractiveness of this idea before ultimately revealing the falseness of this simplistic approach to evil. This essay draws on Catholic social teaching as well as theologian Walter Wink’s analysis of redemptive violence to investigate the critique of revenge revealed in the novel. Through the protagonist Sam Simoneaux’s wrestling with the possibility of revenge juxtaposed with his uncle’s quiet Catholic-infused teaching, the novel reveals that a journey toward reclaiming a painful past is only possible if the siren song of vengeance is resisted.
Descriptor	:	Art History
Descriptor	:	Catholic social teaching
Descriptor	:	Comparative Religion Religious Studies
Descriptor	:	General
Descriptor	:	History
Descriptor	:	myth of redemptive violence
Descriptor	:	nonviolence
Descriptor	:	Religious Studies
Descriptor	:	The Clearing
Descriptor	:	The Missing
Descriptor	:	Tim Gautreaux
Descriptor	:	vengeance
Descriptor	:	Walter Wink
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/156852911X547529‬