Overview

Departing from conventional narratives of the United States and the Americas as fundamentally continental spaces, the contributors to Archipelagic American Studies theorize America as constituted by and accountable to an assemblage of interconnected islands, archipelagoes, shorelines, continents, seas, and oceans. They trace these planet-spanning archipelagic connections in essays on topics ranging from Indigenous sovereignty to the work of Edouard Glissant, from Philippine call centers to US militarization in the Caribbean, and from the great Pacific garbage patch to enduring overlaps between US imperialism and a colonial Mexican archipelago. Shaking loose the straitjacket of continental exceptionalism that hinders and permeates Americanist scholarship, Archipelagic American Studies asserts a more relevant and dynamic approach for thinking about the geographic, cultural, and political claims of the United States within broader notions of America. Contributors Birte Blascheck, J. Michael Dash, Paul Giles, Susan Gillman, Matthew Pratt Guterl, Hsinya Huang, Allan Punzalan Isaac, Joseph Keith, Yolanda Martinez-San Miguel, Brandy Nalani McDougall, Ifeoma Kiddoe Nwankwo, Craig Santos Perez, Brian Russell Roberts, John Carlos Rowe, Cherene Sherrard-Johnson, Ramon E. Soto-Crespo, Michelle Ann Stephens, Elaine Stratford, Etsuko Taketani, Alice Te Punga Somerville, Teresia Teaiwa, Lanny Thompson, Nicole A. Waligora-Davis

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Author:   Brian Russell Roberts ,  Michelle Ann Stephens
Publisher:   Duke University Press
Imprint:   Duke University Press
Weight:   0.816kg
ISBN:  

9780822363354

ISBN 10:   0822363356
Pages:   496
Publication Date:   16 June 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Editors' Acknowledgments  xi Introduction. Archipelagic American Studies: Decontinentalizing the Study of American Culture / Brian Russell Roberts and Michelle Ann Stephens  1 Part I. Theories and Methods for an Archipelagic American Studies 1. Heurestic Geographies: Territories and Areas, Islands and Archipelagoes / Lanny Thompson  57 2. Imagining the Archipelago / Elaine Stratford  74 Part II. Archipelagic Mappings and Meta-Geographies 3. Guam and Archipelagic Black Global Imaginary / Craig Santos Perez / 97 4. The Archipelagic Black Global Imaginary: Walter White's Pacific Island Hopping / Etsuko Taketani  113 5. It Takes an Archipelago to Compare Otherwise / Susan Gillman  133 Part III. Empires and Archipelagoes 6. Colonial and Mexican Archipelagoes: Remiagining Colonial Caribbean Studies / Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel  155 7. Invisible Islands: Remapping the Transpacific Archipelago of US Empire in Carlos Bulosan's America Is in the Heart / Joseph Keith  174 8. ""Myth of the Continents"": American Vulnerabilities and ""Rum and Colca-Cola"" / Nicole A. Waligora-Davis  191 Part IV. Islands of Resistance 9. ""Shades of Paradise"": Craig Santos Perez's Transpacific Voyages / John Carlos Rowe  213 10. Insubordinate Islands and Coastal Chaos: Pauline Hopkins's Literary Land/Seascapes / Cherene Serrard-Johnson  232 11. ""We Are Not Americans"": Competing Rhetorical Archipelagoes in Hawai'i / Brandy Nālani McDougall 259 Part V. Ecologies of Relation 12. Performing Archipelagic Identities in Bill Reid, Robert Sullivan, and Syaman Rapongan / Hsinya Huang  281 13. Archipelagic Trash: Despised Forms in the Cultural History of the Americas / Ramón E. Soto-Crespo  302 14. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch as Metaphor: The (American) Pacific You Can't See / Alice Te Punga Somerville  320 Part VI. Insular Imaginaries 15. The Tropics of Josephine: Space, Time, and Hybrid Movements / Matthew Pratt Guterl  341 16. The Stranger by the Shore: The Archipelization of Caliban in Antillean Theatre / J. Michael Dash  356 Part VII. Migrating Identities, Moving Borders 17. The Governors-General: Caribbean Canadian and Pacific New Zealand Success Stories / Birte Blascheck and Teresia Teaiwa  373 18. Living the West Indian Dream: Archipelagic Cosmopolitanism and Triangulated Economies of Desire in Jamaican Popular Culture / Ifeoma Kiddoe Nwankwo  390 19. Offshore Identities: Ruptures in the 300-Second Average Handling Time / Allan Punzalan Isaac  411 Afterword. The Archipelagic Accretion / Paul Giles Selected Bibliography  437 Contributors  453 Index  "

Reviews

With some of the best essays collected on the subject this volume opens up new spaces for the fields of Caribbean and of American studies. This is a path-breaking edited volume. --Anthony Bogues, Brown University

Author Information

Brian Russell Roberts is Associate Professor of English at Brigham Young University. Michelle Ann Stephens is Professor of English and Latino and Caribbean Studies at Rutgers University, New Brunswick.

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