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

• Autore: Lepselter Susan Claudia
• Pubblicazione: Ann Arbor : , : University of Michigan Press, , 2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (viii, 181 pages)
• Disciplina: 150.195
• Soggetto topico: Uncanny, The (Psychoanalysis)
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• 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"--Publisher's description.
• Altri titoli varianti: Resonance of Unseen Things
• Titolo autorizzato: Resonance of unseen things
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910381353103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II