The Life of Paper

Letters and a Poetics of Living Beyond Captivity

Sharon Luk (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

328 Seiten

2017
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-29624-4 (ISBN)

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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 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.

Sharon Luk is Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies at University of Oregon.

List of Illustrations
Introduction: The Life of Paper

Part One: Detained
1 • The Inventions of China
2 • Imagined Genealogies (for All Who Cannot Arrive)

Part Two: Interned
3 • “Detained Alien Enemy Mail: EXAMINED”
4 • Censorship and the / Work of Art, Where They Barbed the / Fourth Corner Open

Part Three: Imprisoned
5 • Ephemeral Value and Disused Commodities
6 • Uses of the Profane

Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	03.02.2018
Reihe/Serie	American Crossroads ; 46
Zusatzinfo	35 b-w photos
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-520-29624-9 / 0520296249
ISBN-13	978-0-520-29624-4 / 9780520296244
Zustand	Neuware