Reimagining the American Pacific : From South Pacific to Bamboo Ridge and Beyond /

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In this compelling critique Rob Wilson explores the creation of the "Pacific Rim" in the American imagination and how the concept has been variously adapted and resisted in Hawai'i, the Pacific Islands, New Zealand, and Australia. Reimagining the American Pacific ranges from the ninet...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Wilson, Rob, 1947- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2000.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Opinion publique > Pacifique, Region du.
Cultuursociologie.
Lokale gemeenschappen.
Internationalisatie.
Kulturelle Identität
Public opinion.
Civilization.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
HISTORY > World.
Public opinion > Pacific Area.
Pacifique, Region du > Civilisation.
Pazifischer Raum
Hawaii
Amerika
Pacific Area.
Pacific Area > Civilization.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface: Searching for "the local": Hawai'i as Miss Universe?
  • Introduction: "How Did You Find America?": On Becoming Asia/Pacific
  • 1. Imaging "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.

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