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Autore |
Lepselter Susan Claudia |
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Resonance of Unseen Things : Poetics, Power, Captivity, and UFOs in the American Uncanny / / Susan Claudia Lepselter |
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Ann Arbor : , : University of Michigan Press, , 2016 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (viii, 181 pages) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Uncanny, The (Psychoanalysis) |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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"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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