Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Lepselter, Susan Claudia

Titel

The resonance of unseen things : poetics, power, captivity, and UFOs in the American uncanny

Ort / Verlag

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press

Erscheinungsjahr

©2016

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• 1. Vulnerabilities -- 2. Secret immobilities and the poetics of the uncanny -- 3. Dreaming the colonized world: the resonance of captivity -- 4. You can't repair history -- 5. Here comes a change: at home in the weird -- 6. It all comes together: power, containment, the dream of escape -- Coda : one more thing
• 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