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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מחבר ראשי: Lepselter, Susan Claudia (Author)
פורמט: אלקטרוני ספר אלקטרוני
שפה:אנגלית
יצא לאור: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2016]
סדרה:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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סיכום:"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
תיאור פיזי:1 online resource (176 pages).
ISBN:9780472900657
גישה:Open Access