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

Description

Main Author

Lepselter, Susan

Language(s)

English

Published

©2016.
London : Knowledge Unlatched, c2016.
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2016.

Subjects

American Studies.
Anthropology.

Summary

'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 conspiracy theory as an index of a certain strain of late-20th century American despondency/malaise, especially as experienced by people experiencing downward social mobility. Written by a cultural anthropologist with a literary background, this is a deeply interdisciplinary project that 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 this book shows how multiple troubled histories—of race, class, gender and power—become compressed into stories of uncanny memory.
'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/malaise, especially as experienced by people experiencing downward social mobility.

Note

Also issued in print and PDF version.

Physical Description

1 online resource (176 pages) : illustrations, figures, tables.

ISBN

9780472072941 (print-ISBN)
9780472052943 (pbk-ISBN)

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