The resonance of unseen things poetics, power, captivity, and UFOs in the American uncanny
"The Resonance of Unseen Things offers an ethnographic meditation on the "uncanny" persistence and cultural freight of conspiracy theory. The project is a reading of conspiracy theory as an index of a certain strain of late 20th-century American despondency and malaise, especially as...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Ann Arbor
University of Michigan Press
2016, [2016]©2016
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| Series: | Open Access e-Books
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| Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | "The Resonance of Unseen Things offers an ethnographic meditation on the "uncanny" persistence and cultural freight of conspiracy theory. The project is a reading of conspiracy theory as an index of a certain strain of late 20th-century American despondency and malaise, especially as understood by people experiencing downward social mobility. Written by a cultural anthropologist with a literary background, this deeply interdisciplinary book focuses on the enduring American preoccupation with captivity in a rapidly transforming world. Captivity is a trope that appears in both ordinary and fantastic iterations here, and Susan Lepselter shows how multiple troubled histories--of race, class, gender, and power--become compressed into stories of uncanny memory"--Publisher's description |
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| Physical Description: | viii, 181 pages |
| ISBN: | 0472121545 9780472052943 9780472072941 |