The Resonance of Unseen Things
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- Synopsis
- The Resonance of Unseen Things: Power, Poetics, Captivity, and UFOs in the American Uncanny offers an ethnographic meditation on the "uncanny" persistence and cultural freight of conspiracy theory. The project is a reading of the uncanny as an index of a certain strain of late twentieth-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 project 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. Book jacket.
- Copyright:
- 2016
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9780472052943
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780472072941
- Publisher:
- University of Michigan Press
- Date of Addition:
- 04/23/16
- Copyrighted By:
- Susan Lepselter
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Social Studies
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.