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Luk, Sharon

 
9780520296244: Life of Paper: Letters and a Poetics of Living Beyond Captivity
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ISBN 10 : 0520296249 ISBN 13 : 9780520296244
Editeur : University of California Press, 2017

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l'auteur

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

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Éditeur
University of California Press
Date d'édition
2017
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0520296249
ISBN 13 
9780520296244
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
328
Coordonnées du fabricant
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