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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 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.   

Author Biography:

Sharon Luk is Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies at University of Oregon.
Release date Australia
November 10th, 2017
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  • Professional & Vocational
Illustrations
35 b-w photos
Pages
328
Dimensions
152x229x25
ISBN-13
9780520296237
Product ID
26778012

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