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The life of paper : letters and a poetics of living beyond captivity

Luk, Sharon, 1979- author

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\"The Life of Paper offers a wholly original and inspiring analysis of how people facing systematic social dismantling have engaged in letter correspondence to remake themselves, from bodily integrity to subjectivity to 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, Luk demonstrates how correspondence among the incarcerated becomes a poetic act of reinvention and a means for living.\"--Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Subject: Prisoners California Correspondence 20th century. / Imprisonment California History. / Chinese Americans Effect of imprisonment on California 19th century. / Chinese Americans Effect of imprisonment on California 20th century. / Japanese Americans Effect of imprisonment on California 20th century. / African Americans Effect of imprisonment on California 20th century. / Prisoners California Social conditions 20th century. / Prisoners Civil rights California 20th century. / United States Emigration and immigration History.
• ISBN: 9780520296237, 9780520296244

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
HV9475.C2 L85 2018	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE