Karolina Golimowska teaches at Humboldt-Universität in Berlin, Germany. She is also a translator and an author of short prose and journalistic pieces. In 2014 she was awarded with the German-Polish Journalism Award.
"this book is a useful addition to studies of the contemporary
metropolis in literature, especially in relation to trauma studies
and post-9/11 studies"--Ethnic & Third World Literatures Review of
Books
"To add meaningfully to the already vast and ever growing body of
scholarly work on the literature of 9/11 is a call of tall order.
From the early treatments of key fictions such as Kristiaan
Versluys's Out of the Blue (2009) to encyclopedic compendiums such
as Birgit D�wes's Ground Zero Fiction (2011) and the numerous
recent thematically focused analyses, scholars have turned to
theories of trauma and of the spectacle, to the figure of the
Other, to the transatlantic comparisons, and to the global
geopolitical context to explain what sense contemporary Anglophone
writers have made of the 9/11 terrorist attack and its ongoing
reverberations in the early twentieth century. Karolina Golimowska
is well-versed in, and capitalizes on, all these approaches, but
she also manages to productively refocus the scholarly discussion
of this body of work. ... Following these twenty-first century
flaneurs with Golimowska, the readers not only recognize New York
City and London convulsed into daily rituals of vehement othering
already familiar from previous studies of post-9/11 fiction but
also rediscover them as open cities, as the cosmopolises they have
always been, only even more so, paradoxically, in the wake of 9/11.
This new focus allows Golimowska to broaden the scholarly purview
by including less familiar novels, or novels not usually discussed
in the 9/11 context, and to offer fresh interpretations of the
well-studied texts."--Journal of American Culture
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