UID:
almahu_9947382469402882
Format:
1 online resource (viii, 181 pages)
ISBN:
9780472121540 (eBook)
Content:
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.
Note:
Also available in print form.
,
English
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9780472052943
Language:
English
