The Resonance of Unseen Things: Poetics, Power, Captivity, and

The Resonance of Unseen Things: Poetics, Power, Captivity, and UFOs in the American Uncanny

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.
Country USA
Brand University of Michigan Press
Manufacturer University of Michigan Press
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9780472052943
ReleaseDate 2016-03-03
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780472052943

Country	USA
Brand	University of Michigan Press
Manufacturer	University of Michigan Press
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9780472052943
ReleaseDate	2016-03-03
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780472052943

The Resonance of Unseen Things: Poetics, Power, Captivity, and UFOs in the American Uncanny