studies novels, films, and graphic novels taking place in New York after 9/11. The book explains how these texts are aware of how terrorism coming from abroad can foster a strongman at home of real and imagined enemies. Danel Olson argues that terror conditions us to seek, identify, and destroy enemies. Olson demonstrates how the Gothic themes and structure in fiction supports this impulse.  The book also analyzes conspiracy theories and their connection to the Gothic as well as the modern American Gothic tradition more broadly.weiterlesen