RT Book
T1 The life of paper: letters and a poetics of living beyond captivity
A1 Luk, Sharon 1979-
LA English
PP Oakland, California
PB University of California Press
YR 2018
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1636127797
AB 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
AB "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
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN HV9475.C2
SN 9780520296237
SN 9780520296244
K1 Prisoners : Correspondence : 20th century : California
K1 Imprisonment : History : California
K1 Chinese Americans : Effect of imprisonment on : 19th century : California
K1 Chinese Americans : Effect of imprisonment on : 20th century : California
K1 Japanese Americans : Effect of imprisonment on : 20th century : California
K1 African Americans : Effect of imprisonment on : 20th century : California
K1 Prisoners : Social conditions : 20th century : California
K1 Prisoners : Civil rights : 20th century : California
K1 United States : Emigration and immigration : History
K1 Kalifornien : Chinesen : Schwarze : Gefangenenliteratur : Brief : Geschichte 1880-2015