Resonance of unseen things : poetics, power, captivity, and UFOs in the American uncanny /
Susan Lepselter.
Bok Engelsk 2016 Susan Claudia Lepselter
| Omfang | 1 online resource (viii, 181 pages)
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| Opplysninger | 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.
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| ISBN | 9780472121540 (eBook)
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| ISBN(galt) | 9780472052943 (paperback). - 9780472072941 (hardback)
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