Secret History of America: Taxonomy of Urban Legends - Couverture souple

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Varnell PhD, Glenn D

 
9798241285492: Secret History of America: Taxonomy of Urban Legends
Couverture souple
ISBN 13 : 9798241285492
Editeur : Independently published, 2025

Synopsis

Secret History of America: Taxonomy of Urban Legends is a critical examination of the stories Americans tell when official explanations, institutions, and histories prove insufficient. Rather than dismissing urban legends as superstition or entertainment, this book treats them as adaptive narrative systems—cultural mechanisms that translate fear, uncertainty, and unresolved experience into story. From cryptids and wilderness myths to ritual legends, haunted architecture, institutional distrust, psychological entities, identity boundaries, and digital-born folklore, each category reveals how fear organizes itself in response to specific social and environmental pressures.

Drawing on anthropology, psychology, and media theory, the book presents a clear analytical framework that reads urban legends as relic narratives—residues left behind when systems fail to fully contain harm or ambiguity. These stories endure not because they are believed, but because they function: warning where policy cannot, teaching where authority is mistrusted, and preserving memory where history remains unresolved. Secret History of America: Taxonomy of Urban Legends offers a rigorous and unsettling map of American anxiety, showing how fear becomes story—and why those stories refuse to disappear.

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Éditeur
Independently published
Date d'édition
2025
Langue
anglais
ISBN 13 
9798241285492
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
168
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