Reimagining the American Pacific: From South Pacific to Bamboo Ridge and Beyond
In: New Americanists
Frontmatter -- Contents -- 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-Iani-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. Postmodem X: Honolulu Traces -- CODA Part Italian, Part Many Things Else: Creating "Asia/ Pacific" along a Honolulu-Taipei Line of Flight -- Index