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"Brown argues convincingly that alien abduction stories speak to
several key issues in our culture, from environmentalism to
changing ideas about reproduction. Extending far beyond textual
readings, she instead tells the stories of individual people,
treating them with respect, but with a critical lens as well. Her
analysis of the role of 'experts' in alien abduction-their power
and the misuses of that power-is utterly compelling."
--Melani McAlister, George Washington University
aBrownas brilliant study is so much more than a book about alien
abduction--it is a flesh-and-blood inquiry into the nature of
belief in a technologically advanced society.a
--Andrew Ross, author of "Fast Boat to China"
Since its emergence in the 1960s, belief in alien abduction has
saturated popular culture, with the ubiquitous image of the
almond-eyed alien appearing on everything from bumper stickers to
bars of soap. Drawing on interviews with alleged abductees from the
New York area, Bridget Brown suggests a new way for people to think
about the alien phenomenon, one that is concerned not with
establishing whether aliens actually exist, but with understanding
what belief in aliens in America may tell us about our changing
understanding of ourselves and our place in the world.
They Know Us Better Than We Know Ourselves looks at how the
belief in abduction by extraterrestrials is constituted by and
through popular discourse and the images provided by print, film,
and television. Brown contends that the abduction phenomenon is
symptomatic of a period during which people have come to feel
increasingly divested of the ability to know whatis real or true
about themselves and the world in which they live. The alien
abduction phenomenon helps us think about how people who feel left
out create their own stories and fashion truths that square with
their own experience of the world.
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