Ebook: The Life of Paper: Letters and a Poetics of Living Beyond Captivity

"Cover" -- "Contents" -- "List of Illustrations" -- "Introduction: The Life of Paper" -- "PART ONE: DETAINED" -- "1 The Inventions of China" -- "2 Imagined Genealogies (for All Who Cannot Arrive)" -- "PART TWO: INTERNED" -- "3 "Detained Alien Enemy Mail: EXAMINED"" -- "4 Censorship and the / Work of Art (Where They Barbed the / Fourth Corner Open" -- "PART THREE: IMPRISONED" -- "5 Ephemeral Value and Disused Commodities" -- "6 Uses of the Profane" -- "Epilogue" -- "Acknowledgments" -- "Notes" -- "Bibliography" -- "Index" -- "A" -- "B" -- "C" -- "D" -- "E" -- "F" -- "G" -- "H" -- "I" -- "J" -- "K" -- "L" -- "M" -- "N" -- "O" -- "P" -- "Q" -- "R" -- "S" -- "T" -- "U" -- "V" -- "W" -- "X" -- "Y.";The Life of Paper offers a wholly original and inspiring analysis of how people facing systematic social dismantling have written letters 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.