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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Main Author: Luk, Sharon, 1979- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Prisoners > Social conditions.
Prisoners > Civil rights.
Imprisonment.
Emigration and immigration.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Penology.
Prisonniers > Droits > Californie > 20e siecle.
Prisonniers > Californie > Conditions sociales > 20e siecle.
Noirs americains > Effets de l'emprisonnement sur > Californie > 20e siecle.
Americains d'origine japonaise > Effets de l'emprisonnement sur > Californie > 20e siecle.
Americains d'origine chinoise > Effets de l'emprisonnement sur > Californie > 20e siecle.
Americains d'origine chinoise > Effets de l'emprisonnement sur > Californie > 19e siecle.
Emprisonnement > Californie > Histoire.
Prisonniers > Californie > Correspondance > 20e siecle.
Prisoners > Civil rights > California > 20th century.
Prisoners > California > Social conditions > 20th century.
African Americans > Effect of imprisonment on > California > 20th century.
Japanese Americans > Effect of imprisonment on > California > 20th century.
Chinese Americans > Effect of imprisonment on > California > 20th century.
Chinese Americans > Effect of imprisonment on > California > 19th century.
Imprisonment > California > History.
Prisoners > California > Correspondence > 20th century.
United States.
California.
United States > Emigration and immigration > History.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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