[Inter]sections 26 (2023)

Special issue on Familiar Perpetrators: On the Intimacy of Evil in Contemporary American Literature and Popular Culture. This issue was co-edited by Dragoș Manea, Dana Mihăilescu, Roxana Oltean and Mihaela Precup, whose work was supported by PCE grant 101/2021, “Familiar Perpetrators: On the Intimacy of Evil in Contemporary American Literature and Popular Culture,” offered by UEFISCDI.

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Evelyn Martha Mohr. Perpetration and Performance: Unlikely Villains and the Ghosting Effect in Fargo

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William Magrino. From Disaffected Youth to Dangerous Adults: The Brooding Evil of the Familiar in Bret Easton Ellis’s Fiction

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William Wright. The Problem with Clowns: Political Perpetrators and Their Comedic Critics

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Hatice Bay. “Instead of Pumping Iron, She was Pumping Bullets into her Husband”: The Portrayal of a Female Perpetrator in Nanette Burstein’s Killer Sally

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