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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| Formato: | Recurso Electrónico livro electrónico |
| Idioma: | inglês |
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Ann Arbor :
University of Michigan Press,
[2016]
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| Resumo: | "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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| Descrição Física: | 1 online resource (176 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9780472900657 |
| Acesso: | Open Access |