Brian Russell Roberts

Borderwaters

Amid the Archipelagic States of America

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Produktbeschreibung

Brian Russell Roberts dispels continental-centric US national mythologies to advance an alternative image of the United States as an archipelagic nation to better reflect its claims to archipelagoes in the Pacific and Caribbean.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 388
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 576g
• ISBN-13: 9781478011859
• ISBN-10: 1478011858
• Artikelnr.: 60202877

Autorenporträt

Brian Russell Roberts is Professor of English at Brigham Young University, coeditor of Archipelagic American Studies and Indonesian Notebook: A Sourcebook on Richard Wright and the Bandung Conference, both also published by Duke University Press, and author of Artistic Ambassadors: Literary and International Representation of the New Negro Era.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction. Archipelagic Thinking and the Borderwaters: A US-Eccentric
Vision  1
1. Interlapping Continents and Archipelagoes of American Studies  45
2. Archipelagic Diaspora and Geographic Form  82
3. Borderwaters and Geometries of Being Amid 111
4. Fractal Temporality on Vulnerable Foreshores  159
5. Spiraling Futures of the Archipelagic States of America  202
Conclusion. Distant Reading the Archipelagic Gyre: Digital Humanities
Archipelagoes  248
Notes  275
Bibliography  323
Index  359