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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Wilson, Rob, 1947- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2000.
Series:New Americanists.
Subjects:
Public opinion > Pacific Area.
Opinion publique > Pacifique, Région du.
HISTORY > World.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
Civilization.
Public opinion.
Kulturelle Identität
Internationalisatie.
Lokale gemeenschappen.
Cultuursociologie.
Pacific Area > Civilization.
Pacifique, Région du > Civilisation.
Pacific Area.
Amerika
Hawaii
Pazifischer Raum
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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