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9/11 Gothic - Decrypting Ghosts and Trauma in New York City's Terrorism Novels (Hardcover)
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9/11 Gothic - Decrypting Ghosts and Trauma in New York City's Terrorism Novels (Hardcover)
Series: Reading Trauma and Memory
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Published to coincide with the twentieth anniversary of the World
Trade Center attacks, 9/11 Gothic: Decrypting Ghosts and Trauma in
New York City's Terrorism Novels returns to the ruins and anguish
of 9/11 to pose a question not yet addressed by scholarship. World
Fantasy Award-winning writer Danel Olson asks how, why, and where
New York City novels captured the terror of the Al-Qaeda mass
murders through a supernatural lens. This book explores ghostly
presences from the world's largest crime scene in novels from Don
DeLillo, Jonathan Safran Foer, Lynne Sharon Schwartz, Griffin
Hansbury, to Patrick McGrath--all of whom have been called writers
of Gotham. Arguing how theories on trauma and the gothic can
combine to explain ghostly encounters civilian survivors experience
in fiction, the author shares what those eerie meetings express
about grief, guilt, mental instability, and suicidal urges. This
project also explores why and how paths to recovery open for these
ghost-visited survivors in some of the most catastrophic fictions
from the early twenty-first century.
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