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This book explores ghostly presences in terrorism novels from New Yorkers Don DeLillo, Jonathan Safran Foer, Lynne Sharon Schwartz, Griffin Hansbury, & Patrick McGrath. Arguing how theories on trauma and gothic combine to interpret ghosts, Olson discusses what supernatural meetings express about grief, guilt, mental instability, & suicidal urges. Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Connecting Trauma Theory, 9/11 Novels, Gothic Traditions, and the Unidentified Bones of the World Trade Center -- A Gothic Intervention in Approaches to 9/11 Fiction -- Critical Currents -- Notes -- Chapter 1: Don DeLillo's Falling Man (2007): Deserting and Impersonating the Dead -- Critical Reception -- Freud, the Uncanny, and Disaster Ghosts -- The Erotics of 9/11 -- The Viral Transmission of Trauma -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 2: Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005): Searching and Disinterring the Dead -- Critical Reception -- Establishing Gothic Tendencies inside the Quest -- The Shakespearean Gothic Connection -- Behind Every Trauma Stands Another -- Memory Debates -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 3: Lynne Sharon Schwartz's The Writing on the Wall (2005): Avenging and Resurrecting the Dead -- Critical Reception -- Gothic Scripts -- A Clamor of Ghosts -- The Twins' Toys and Gothicized Play Therapy -- Art, Lovers, and Gothic Contamination -- On the Terrors of the Future -- Doppelgängers and Perpetrators -- Pursuing Revenge -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 4: Griffin Hansbury's The Nostalgist (2012): Conjuring and Romancing the Dead -- Critical Reception -- The Necessary Ghost -- Castration Anxiety -- Conclusion -- Note -- Chapter 5: Patrick McGrath's Ground Zero (2005): Abandoning and Angering the Dead -- Critical Reception -- Ghost Sightings -- Whores and Psychiatrists -- Conclusion -- Note -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1: Further Reading -- Appendix 2: Interview at the Opening of the National September 11 Memorial & -- Museum, New York City, with Its Executive Vice President and Director Alice M. Greenwald (June 16, 2014) -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.
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