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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| Place / Publishing House: | Ann Arbor, MI : : University of Michigan Press,, 2016. ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 181 pages) |
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| Summary: | 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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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780472121540 (eBook) 9780472072941 (hardback) 9780472052943 (paperback) |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | Susan Lepselter. |