9/11 Gothic - Olson, Danel

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Résumé :
Published to coincide with the twentieth anniversary of the World Trade Center attacks, 9/11 Gothic: Decrypting Ghosts and Trauma in New York City&rsquo...

Biographie:
Danel Olson is a professor of Gothic fiction and survivor memoirs at Lone Star College in Houston, Texas. He is the creator of Exotic Gothic, a World Fantasy Finalist anthology series premiering stories from emerging and established writers in over thirty nations from Australia to Zimbabwe. First published by Canada's Ash-Tree Press and now continued by England's P.S. Publishing, Exotic Gothic 5 in 2013 debuted new stories from Joyce Carol Oates and many others. He has taught in Israel, Canada, China, and America on film and literature. Three-time finalist for the Bram Stoker Award and winner of a Shirley Jackson Award and two World Fantasy Awards, his published work has been called a major contribution to film history and scholarship by the Washington Post. His most recent volume is Lexington Books' 9/11/ Gothic: Decrypting Ghosts and Trauma in New York City's Terrorism Fiction, which was nominated for the 2021 Bram Stoker Award in Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction. Dr. Danel Olson's other edited works in print include 21st Century Gothic: Great Gothic Fiction Since 2000, The Exorcist: Studies in the Horror Film, Stanley Kubrick's 'The Shining: Studies in the Horror Film, Guillermo del Toro's The Devil's Backbone: Studies in the Horror Film and Pan's Labyrinth: Studies in the Horror Film, the latter two being nominated for the Bram Stoker Award in Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction....

Sommaire:
s Terrorism Novels returns to the ruins and anguish of 9/11 to pose a question not yet addressed by scholarship. Two time World Fantasy Award-winning writer Danel Olson asks how, why, and where New York City novels capture the terror of the Al-Qaeda mass murders through a supernatural lens. This book explores ghostly presences from the world&rsquo...