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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lepselter, Susan Claudia, author.

Contributor:

Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human-alien encounters.

Conspiracy theories--United States.

Conspiracy theories.

United States.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (181 pages)

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2016.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

The Resonance of Unseen Things: Power, Poetics, Captivity, and UFOs in the American Uncanny offers an ethnographic meditation on the "uncanny" persistence and cultural freight of conspiracy theory. The project is a reading of the uncanny as an index of a certain strain of late twentieth-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 project 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. Book jacket.

Contents:

Vulnerabilities

Secret immobilities and the poetics of the uncanny

Dreaming the colonized world: the resonance of captivity

You can't repair history

Here comes a change: at home in the weird

It all comes together: power, containment, the dream of escape

One More thing.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on information from the publisher.

ISBN:

9780472072941

0472072943

9780472052943

0472052942

9780472121540

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access