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Autore: |
Lepselter Susan Claudia
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Titolo: |
Resonance of unseen things : poetics, power, captivity, and UFOs in the American uncanny / / Susan Lepselter
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Pubblicazione: | Ann Arbor, MI : , : University of Michigan Press, , 2016 |
©2016 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (viii, 181 pages) |
Disciplina: | 001.942 |
Soggetto topico: | Human-alien encounters |
Conspiracy theories - United States | |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Resonance of unseen things ![]() |
ISBN: | 9780472121540 (eBook) |
9780472072941 (hardback) | |
9780472052943 (paperback) | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910136928903321 |
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