The Life of Paper : Letters and a Poetics of Living Beyond Captivity
by
Sharon Luk
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
American Crossroads
ISBN-10
0520296249
ISBN-13
9780520296244
Publisher
University of California Press
Imprint
University of California Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Nov 10th, 2017
Print length
328 Pages
Weight
456 grams
Dimensions
15.10 x 22.70 x 2.20 cms
Product Classification:
Family & health
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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.
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