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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ann Arbor :
University of Michigan Press,
[2016]
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| Colección: | Open Access e-Books
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "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"--Publisher's description |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 181 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-172) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780472121540 0472121545 0472072943 9780472072941 0472052942 9780472052943 9780472900657 047290065X |
| Acceso: | Open Access |