The Life of Paper Letters and a Poetics of Living Beyond Captivity - American Crossroads

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.   

ISBN:	9780520296244
Publisher:	University of California Press
Imprint:	University of California Press
Published date:	10 Nov 2017
Language:	English
Number of pages:	328
Weight:	456g
Height:	151mm
Width:	227mm
Spine width:	22mm

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