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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Knowledge Unlatched | Open Access e-Books | Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2016]Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2018Copyright date: ©[2016]Description: 1 online resource (176 pages)Content type:
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  • 9780472900657
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Vulnerabilities -- Secret immobilities and the poetics of the uncanny -- Dreaming the colonized world : the resonance of captivity -- You can't repair history -- Here comes a change : at home in the weird -- It all comes together : power, containment, the dream of escape -- One more thing.
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"--Publisher's description
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Vulnerabilities -- Secret immobilities and the poetics of the uncanny -- Dreaming the colonized world : the resonance of captivity -- You can't repair history -- Here comes a change : at home in the weird -- It all comes together : power, containment, the dream of escape -- One more thing.

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"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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