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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Rob Wilson , Rob Wilson , Wilson , Donald E PeasePublisher: Duke University Press Imprint: Duke University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 3.20cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.889kg ISBN: 9780822325000ISBN 10: 0822325004 Pages: 320 Publication Date: 24 July 2000 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsPreface: 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-lani-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. Postmodern X: Honolulu Traces Coda: Part Italian, Part Many Things Else: Creating Asia/Pacific along a Honolulu-Taipei Line of FlightReviews"""This is a splendid piece of work. Reimagining the American Pacific is a crucial contribution to the field of Asian-Pacific studies. It opens up new ground even as it joins and intervenes significantly in the debate on the nature and location of cultural politics. The author does a remarkable job of making available to the reader the history of the Asian-Pacific rim. His special touch has to do with the elegant manner in which he brings theory to bear on incredibly detailed material. The reader of this book will gain a comprehensive education about the importance of the region.""--[PERMISSION PENDING] [edited RR, PP] Rajagopolan Radhakrishnan, University of Massachusetts at WHERE? "" Lyrical and disruptive, Wilson's book masterfully dismantles multiple and contradictory imaginings of ""the Pacific"" and recovers the psychic longings, material histories, and politics that have variously produced the modern ""Asia Pacific."" This book wrenches American studies out of any lingering continent-bound complacency, gives a much needed broader scope to Asian American studies, and discloses crucial blind-spots in Asian area studies. Highly recommended for scholars in all these areas, as well as cultural studies in general.""--David Palumbo -Liu, author of Asian/American: Historical Crossings of a Racial Frontier [See EY routing note re others! We won't have room for these, even, w/out cutting.] ""Reimagining the American Pacific convincingly articulates a common poetics of a Pacific local that illuminates the common ground linking even those factions currently at each others' throats. One comes from this book with a conviction that, as the dust settles, many of those involved in Pacific cultural production will find in Wilson's book an inspired vision of global stakes and local strategy.""--[PERMISSION PENDING] [edited RR, PP] Cristopher Connery, University of California, Santa Cruz [And see EY routing note re others.] ""At ease with the interface of the local and global, Rob Wilson flies in and out of Asia and the Pacific. As he rediscovers and redefines the continent, islands and waters, he constantly rereads America. Such a geographic venture is also an exercise in de-disciplining. Circulating freely among literature, culture, economics, politics, history, and media, Wilson's imagination and judgement are shrewd, sardonic, zestful, zany, and delightful. Reimagining the American Pacific is a thoroughly rewarding book.""--Masao Miyoshi, University of California, San Diego ""This book is a product of the tangled and overlapping multicultural voices it attempts to track. In it one hears a cacophony of voices, from the Hawaiian kings invoked in indigenous shark god poetry to Elvis's ""Blue Hawaii"" to the Asian-American pastoral verse of the pineapple plantations. While the many strands of Wilson's argument are sometimes hard to follow, the knotted whole is greatly evocative of place and literature in contemporary Hawaii.""--Times Literary Supplement, March 16 2001 -" This is a splendid piece of work. Reimagining the American Pacific is a crucial contribution to the field of Asian-Pacific studies. It opens up new ground even as it joins and intervenes significantly in the debate on the nature and location of cultural politics. The author does a remarkable job of making available to the reader the history of the Asian-Pacific rim. His special touch has to do with the elegant manner in which he brings theory to bear on incredibly detailed material. The reader of this book will gain a comprehensive education about the importance of the region. --[PERMISSION PENDING] [edited RR, PP] Rajagopolan Radhakrishnan, University of Massachusetts at WHERE? Lyrical and disruptive, Wilson's book masterfully dismantles multiple and contradictory imaginings of the Pacific and recovers the psychic longings, material histories, and politics that have variously produced the modern Asia Pacific. This book wrenches American studies out of any lingering continent-bound complacency, gives a much needed broader scope to Asian American studies, and discloses crucial blind-spots in Asian area studies. Highly recommended for scholars in all these areas, as well as cultural studies in general. --David Palumbo -Liu, author of Asian/American: Historical Crossings of a Racial Frontier [See EY routing note re others! We won't have room for these, even, w/out cutting.] Reimagining the American Pacific convincingly articulates a common poetics of a Pacific local that illuminates the common ground linking even those factions currently at each others' throats. One comes from this book with a conviction that, as the dust settles, many of those involved in Pacific cultural production will find in Wilson's book an inspired vision of global stakes and local strategy. --[PERMISSION PENDING] [edited RR, PP] Cristopher Connery, University of California, Santa Cruz [And see EY routing note re others.] At ease with the interface of the local and global, Rob Wilson flies in and out of Asia and the Pacific. As he rediscovers and redefines the continent, islands and waters, he constantly rereads America. Such a geographic venture is also an exercise in de-disciplining. Circulating freely among literature, culture, economics, politics, history, and media, Wilson's imagination and judgement are shrewd, sardonic, zestful, zany, and delightful. Reimagining the American Pacific is a thoroughly rewarding book. --Masao Miyoshi, University of California, San Diego This book is a product of the tangled and overlapping multicultural voices it attempts to track. In it one hears a cacophony of voices, from the Hawaiian kings invoked in indigenous shark god poetry to Elvis's Blue Hawaii to the Asian-American pastoral verse of the pineapple plantations. While the many strands of Wilson's argument are sometimes hard to follow, the knotted whole is greatly evocative of place and literature in contemporary Hawaii. --Times Literary Supplement, March 16 2001 - Author InformationRob Wilson is Professor of Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the author of numerous books including American Sublime: The Genealogy of a Poetic Genre and several volumes of poetry, and coeditor of Global/Local: Cultural Production and the Transnational Imaginary and of Asia/Pacific as Space of Cultural Production, both published by Duke University Press. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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