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

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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 confin...

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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Luk, Sharon, 1979- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018]
Sujets:
1800-1999
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.
Prisonniers > Californie > Correspondance > 20e siècle.
Emprisonnement > Californie > Histoire.
Américains d'origine chinoise > Effets de l'emprisonnement sur > Californie > 19e siècle.
Américains d'origine chinoise > Effets de l'emprisonnement sur > Californie > 20e siècle.
Américains d'origine japonaise > Effets de l'emprisonnement sur > Californie > 20e siècle.
Noirs américains > Effets de l'emprisonnement sur > Californie > 20e siècle.
Prisonniers > Californie > Conditions sociales > 20e siècle.
Prisonniers > Droits > Californie > 20e siècle.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Penology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
Emigration and immigration
Imprisonment
Prisoners > Civil rights
Prisoners > Social conditions
United States > Emigration and immigration > History.
États-Unis > Émigration et immigration > Histoire.
California
United States
History
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Résumé:"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
Description matérielle:1 online resource (x, 314 pages)
Récompenses:Lora Romero First Book Prize, 2018.
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780520968820
0520968824

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