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- Title
Alienation and Aliens: A Comparative Study of Narratives of Abduction in Historical African and UFO Experiences.
- Authors
Rose, Dell J.
- Abstract
This article examines the racial dimensions of UFO abduction narratives by comparing the structural elements of these narratives with historical accounts of African enslavement. It is suggested that UFO abduction narratives from White Americans, which make up an overwhelming majority of such accounts, comes from collective feelings of widespread culpability for the enslavement and profiting from African persons. It is suggested that the UFO abduction experience is a way to overcome such pervasive feelings of guilt by establishing a new power dynamic that reverses the roles of victim and victimizer and mirrors closely historical accounts of abduction. Furthermore, it seeks to add to the discourse surrounding race and the conception of the extraterrestrial.
- Subjects
ABDUCTION; UNIDENTIFIED flying objects; RACE; COMPARATIVE studies; NARRATIVES; SLAVERY
- Publication
Fabula, 2022, Vol 63, Issue 3/4, p262
- ISSN
0014-6242
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/fabula-2022-0017