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The Life of Paper : Letters and a Poetics of Living Beyond Captivity / Sharon Luk.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Luk, Sharon, author.
- Series:
- American crossroads.
- American Crossroads ; 46
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Prisoners--Civil rights--California--20th century.
- Prisoners.
- Prisoners--California--Social conditions--20th century.
- African Americans--Effect of imprisonment on--California--20th century.
- African Americans.
- Japanese Americans--Effect of imprisonment on--California--20th century.
- Japanese Americans.
- Chinese Americans--Effect of imprisonment on--California--20th century.
- Chinese Americans.
- Chinese Americans--Effect of imprisonment on--California--19th century.
- Imprisonment--California--History.
- Imprisonment.
- Prisoners--California--Correspondence--20th century.
- United States--Emigration and immigration--History.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2017]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- The Life of Paper offers a wholly original and inspiring analysis of how people facing systematic social dismantling have engaged letter correspondence to remake themselves-from bodily integrity to subjectivity and collective and spiritual being. Exploring the evolution of racism and confinement in California history, this ambitious investigation disrupts common understandings of the early detention of Chinese migrants (1880s-1920s), the internment of Japanese Americans (1930s-1940s), and the mass incarceration of African Americans (1960s-present) in its meditation on modern development and imprisonment as a way of life. Situating letters within global capitalist movements, racial logics, and overlapping modes of social control, Sharon Luk demonstrates how correspondence becomes a poetic act of reinvention and a way to live for those who are incarcerated.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Introduction: The Life of Paper
- Part one. Detained
- Part two. Interned
- Part three. Imprisoned
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 20. Sep 2019)
- ISBN:
- 9780520968820
- 0520968824
- OCLC:
- 1006380972
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