Resonance of unseen things : poetics, power, captivity, and UFOs in the American uncanny / Susan Lepselter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lepselter, Susan Claudia, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human-alien encounters.

Conspiracy theories--United States.

Conspiracy theories.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 181 pages)

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, MI : University of Michigan Press, 2016.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9780472121540 (eBook)

OCLC:

945384245