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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1. Verfasser: Lepselter, Susan Claudia (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Ann Arbor University of Michigan Press [2016]
Schriftenreihe:Knowledge Unlatched
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Zusammenfassung:"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
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (viii, 181 Seiten)
ISBN:0472052942
0472072943
0472121545
047290065X
9780472052943
9780472072941
9780472121540
9780472900657
Zugangseinschränkungen:Open Access

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