They Know Us Better Than We Know Ourselves : the History and Politics of Alien Abduction.

They Know Us Better Than We Know Ourselves : the History and Politics of Alien Abduction.

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 ne...

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Main Author: Brown, Bridget
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : NYU Press, 2007.
Subjects:
Alien abduction.
Human-alien encounters.
HISTORY / Social History.
Alien abduction
Human-alien encounters
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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Elusive Shreds of Memory: The Trauma and Recovery of Alien Abduction; 2 The Invisible Epidemic: Abduction Traumatists; 3 Good Subjects: Submitting to the Alien; 4 My Body Is Not My Own: The Intimate Invasion of Alien Technology; 5 An Ongoing and Systematic Breeding Experiment; 6 They Have the Secrets: Conspiracy Theory as Alternative History; 7 This Is Worse Than Friggin' Aliens: Conspiracy Theory and the War against Citizens; 8 Look and See What You Have Done: Abductees and the Burden of Global Consciousness.
  • 9 You Have a Sensitivity: The Limits of Chosenness10 Reality Gets Exploded: Abductee Culture, Abductee Belief; Conclusion: Alien Abduction and the New Face of Terror; Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author.

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