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The Life of Paper: Letters and a Poetics of Living Beyond Captivity Volume 46

The Life of Paper: Letters and a Poetics of Living Beyond Captivity Volume 46

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Series: American Crossroads, Book 46

19th Century United States History20th Century United States HistoryGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

ISBN10: 0520296249
ISBN13: 9780520296244
Publisher: Univ Of California Pr
Published: Nov 10 2017
Pages: 328
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
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.

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