Author Interview: Maria DeBlassie...
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Author Interview: Maria DeBlassie ~ Hopeful and Ordinary Gothic, Generational Trauma, Brujeria and Everyday Magic

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Eldritch Girl: Weird Gothic Stuff & Nonsense by CM Rosens

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Interview with author, professor and bruja Maria DeBlassie, with an author-read extract from her short story HUNGRY BUSINESS. We discussed writing the 'ordinary Gothic' and 'hopeful Gothic' not only as a vehicle for social anxieties and a process for exposing generational trauma, but also as a mode for moving on from trauma and creating a sense of hope going forward, particularly in relation to telling Own Voices stories for women of colour in the American context.

The fully formatted transcript with images and links to Maria's work can be found at cmrosens.com.

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