02179nam 2200361 450 991038135310332120230505052928.0(CKB)3780000000292530(NjHacI)993780000000292530(EXLCZ)99378000000029253020230505d2016 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierResonance of Unseen Things Poetics, Power, Captivity, and UFOs in the American Uncanny /Susan Claudia LepselterAnn Arbor :University of Michigan Press,2016.1 online resource (viii, 181 pages)0-472-05294-2 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."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.Resonance of Unseen ThingsUncanny, The (Psychoanalysis)Uncanny, The (Psychoanalysis)150.195Lepselter Susan Claudia862430NjHacINjHaclBOOK9910381353103321Resonance of unseen things2105964UNINA