The resonance of unseen things : poetics, power, captivity, and UFOs in the American uncanny / Susan Lepselter.
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 unders...
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| Hōputu: | iPukapuka |
| Reo: | English |
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Ann Arbor :
University of Michigan Press,
2016.
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| Urunga tuihono: | http://hdl.handle.net/2027/ku01.r2_3 JSTOR Open Access |
| Whakarāpopototanga: | 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. |
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| Whakaahuatanga ōkiko: | 1 online resource (viii, 181 pages) |
| Rārangi puna kōrero: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |