Resonance of Unseen Things : Poetics, Power, Captivity, and UFOs in the American Uncanny / Susan Claudia Lepselter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lepselter, Susan Claudia, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Uncanny, The (Psychoanalysis).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 181 pages)

Other Title:

Resonance of Unseen Things

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2016.

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"--Publisher's description.

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:

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