Rob Wilson

Reimagining the American Pacific

From South Pacific to Bamboo Ridge and Beyond

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"At ease with the interface of the local and global, Rob Wilson flies in and out of Asia and the Pacific. As he rediscovers and redefines the continent, islands and waters, he constantly rereads America. Such a geographic venture is also an exercise in de-disciplining. Circulating freely among literature, culture, economics, politics, history, and media, Wilson's imagination and judgment are shrewd, sardonic, zestful, zany, and delightful. "Reimagining the American Pacific" is a thoroughly rewarding book."--Masao Miyoshi, University of California, San Diego

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juli 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 154mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 549g
• ISBN-13: 9780822325239
• ISBN-10: 0822325233
• Artikelnr.: 21581330

Autorenporträt

Rob Wilson

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: Searching for “the Local”: Hawai‘i as Miss Universe?
Introduction: “How Did You Find America?”: On Becoming Asia/Pacific
1. Imagining “Asia-Pacific” Today: Forgetting Colonialisms in the Magical
Waters of the Pacific
> 2. American Trajectories into Hawai‘i and the Pacific: Imperial Mappings,
Postcolonial Contestations
> 3. Megatrends and Micropolitics in the American Pacific: Tracing Some
“Local Motions” from Mark Twain to Bamboo Ridge
4. Blue Hawai‘i: Bamboo Ridge as “Critical Regionalism”
> 5. Bloody Mary Meets Lois-Ann Yamanaka: Imagining Hawaiian Locality, from
South Pacific to Bamboo Ridge and Beyond
> 6. Shark God on Trial: Invoking Chief Ka-lani-o‘pu‘u in the
Local/Indigenous/American Struggle for Place
> 7. Good-Bye Paradise: Theorizing Place, Poetics, and Cultural Production
in the American Pacific
8. Becoming Global and Local in the U.S. Transnational Imaginary of the
Pacific
> 9. Postmodern X: Honolulu Traces
> Coda: Part Italian, Part Many Things Else: Creating “Asia/Pacific” along
a Honolulu-Taipei Line of Flight