| Description |
1 online resource (x, 314 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Summary |
"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. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Prisoners -- California -- Correspondence -- 20th century.
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Prisoners. |
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California. |
| Genre/Form |
Correspondence.
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| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Imprisonment -- California -- History.
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Imprisonment. |
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History. |
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Chinese Americans -- Effect of imprisonment on -- California -- 19th century.
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Chinese Americans. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Chinese Americans -- Effect of imprisonment on -- California -- 20th century.
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Japanese Americans -- Effect of imprisonment on -- California -- 20th century.
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Japanese Americans. |
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African Americans -- Effect of imprisonment on -- California -- 20th century.
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African Americans. |
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Prisoners -- California -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
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Social conditions. |
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Prisoners -- Civil rights -- California -- 20th century.
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Prisoners -- Civil rights. |
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United States -- Emigration and immigration -- History.
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United States. |
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Emigration and immigration. |
| Chronological Term |
1800-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Luk, Sharon, 1979- Life of paper. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018] 9780520296237 (DLC) 2017031749 (OCoLC)981118143 |
| ISBN |
9780520968820 (electronic book) |
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0520968824 (electronic book) |
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9780520296237 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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0520296230 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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9780520296244 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0520296249 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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