Format:
1 online resource (317 pages)
ISBN:
9780822380979
Series Statement:
New Americanists Ser.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface. Searching for "the Local": Hawai'i as Miss Universe? -- Introduction. "How Did You Find America?": On Becoming Asia/Pacific -- Chapter 1. Imagining "Asia-Pacific" Today: Forgetting Colonialisms in the Magical Waters of the Pacific -- Chapter 2. American Trajectories into Hawai'i and the Pacific: Imperial Mappings, Postcolonial Contestations -- Chapter 3. Megatrends and Micropolitics in the America Pacific: Tracing Some "Local Motions" from Mark Twain to Bamboo Ridge -- Chapter 4. Blue Hawai'i: Bamboo Ridge as "Critical Regionalism" -- Chapter 5. Bloody Mary Meets Lois-Ann Yamanaka: Imagining Hawaiian Locality, from South Pacific to Bamboo Ridge and Beyond -- Chapter 6. Shark God on Trial: Invoking Chief Ka-lani-o'pu'u in the Local/Indigenous/American Struggle for Place -- Chapter 7. Good-Bye Paradise: Theorizing Place, Poetics, and Cultural Production in the American Pacific -- Chapter 8. Becoming Global and Local in the U.S. Transnational Imaginary of the Pacific -- Chapter 9. Postmodern X: Honolulu Traces -- Coda. Part Italian, Part Many Things Else: Creating "Asia/Pacific" along a Honolulu-Taipei Line of Flight -- Index.
Note:
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780822325000
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780822325000
Language:
English
