| The Life of Paper: Letters and a Poetics of Living Beyond Captivity Volume 46 Contributor(s): Luk, Sharon (Author) |
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ISBN: 0520296230 ISBN-13: 9780520296237 Publisher: University of California Press OUR PRICE: $94.05 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - 20th Century - History | United States - 19th Century - Social Science | Minority Studies |
| Dewey: 365.450 |
| LCCN: 2017031749 |
| Series: American Crossroads |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 6.2" W x 8.9" (1.25 lbs) 328 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Cultural Region - Western U.S. |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |