"A rich and diverse collection."
--"Journal of American Studies"
Why are Americans today so fascinated by the X-Files? How did
rumors emerge about the origins of the AIDS virus as a weapon of
biowarfare? Why does the Kennedy assassination provoke heated
debate nearly forty years after the fact, and what do we make of
Hillary Clinton's accusation of a "vast right-wing conspiracy"
against her husband? The origins of these ideas reveal important
facets of American culture and politics.
Placing conspiracy thinking at the center of American history,
and challenging the knee-jerk dismissal of conspiratorial thought
as deluded and sometimes dangerous, Conspiracy Nation provides a
wide-ranging survey of conspiracy theories in contemporary America.
In the 19th century, inflammatory rhetoric about slave revolts, the
well-publicized specter of the black rapist, and the formation of
the Ku Klux Klan all worked as conspiracy theories to legitimate an
emerging sense of national consciousness based on an ideology of
white supremacy. Today, panicked responses to increasing
multiculturalism and globalization yield new notions of victimhood
and new theories about conspiratorial plans for global domination.
Offering up a provocative array of examples, ranging from alien
abduction to the novels of DeLillo and Pynchon to Tupac Shakur's
"paranoid style," Conspiracy Nation documents and unearths the
workings of conspiracy in the contemporary moment.
Their conclusions, sometimes startling and always compelling,
have much to say about the nature of identity and anxiety,
imagination and politics, and the state of the American psyche
today.
Contributors: Clare Birchall, Jack Bratich, BridgetBrown, Jodi
Dean, Ingrid Walker Fields, Douglas Kellner, Peter Knight, Fran
Mason, John A. McClure, Timothy Melley, Eithne Quinn, and Skip
Willman.
General
| Imprint: |
New York University Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
February 2002 |
| First published: |
February 2002 |
| Editors: |
Peter Knight
|
| Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 15mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
| Pages: |
278 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-8147-4736-0 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
General
|
| LSN: |
0-8147-4736-1 |
| Barcode: |
9780814747360 |
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