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The life of paper :

0520968824

9780520968820

0520296230

0520296249

9780520296237

9780520296244

The life of paper :

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letters and a poetics of living beyond captivity /

Sharon Luk.

Oakland, California :

University of California Press,

[2018]

©2018

1 online resource (x, 314 pages)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : the life of paper -- The inventions of China -- Imagined genealogies (for all who cannot arrive) -- "Detained alien enemy mail : examined" -- Censorship and the/work of art, where they barbed the/fourth corner open -- Ephemeral value and disused commodities -- Uses of the profane.

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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.

JSTOR

22573/ctt1wn6r1t

Life of paper.

9780520296237

African Americans-- Effect of imprisonment on-- California-- 20th century.

Chinese Americans-- Effect of imprisonment on-- California-- 19th century.

Chinese Americans-- Effect of imprisonment on-- California-- 20th century.

Imprisonment-- California-- History.

Japanese Americans-- Effect of imprisonment on-- California-- 20th century.

Prisoners-- California-- Correspondence-- 20th century.

Prisoners-- California-- Social conditions-- 20th century.

Prisoners-- Civil rights-- California-- 20th century.

Emigration and immigration.

Imprisonment.

Prisoners-- Civil rights.

Prisoners-- Social conditions.

SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Minority Studies.

SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Penology.

United States, Emigration and immigration, History.

California.

United States.

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