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
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Summary:"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
Physical Description:1 online resource (328 pages).
Awards:Lora Romero First Book Prize, 2018.
ISBN:9780520968820

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