The life of paper : letters and a poetics of living beyond captivity / Sharon Luk.

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"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...

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Uniform Title:American crossroads ; 46.
Main Author: Luk, Sharon, 1979- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018]
Series:American crossroads ; 46.
Subjects:
Prisoners > California > Correspondence > 20th century.
Imprisonment > California > History.
Chinese Americans > Effect of imprisonment on > California > 19th century.
Chinese Americans > Effect of imprisonment on > California > 20th century.
Japanese Americans > Effect of imprisonment on > California > 20th century.
African Americans > Effect of imprisonment on > California > 20th century.
Prisoners > California > Social conditions > 20th century.
Prisoners > Civil rights > California > 20th century.
United States > Emigration and immigration > History.
Physical Description:x, 314 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Format: Book
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.