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Asia/Pacific as Space of Cultural Production
- Editor(s): Rob Wilson, Arif Dirlik
- Contributor(s): Rob Wilson, Arif Dirlik, M. Consuelo León W., Christopher Connery, Steve Olive, Lawson Fusao Inada, Epeli Hau'ofa, John Fielder, Chiu Yen Liang, Haunani-Kay Trask, Joseph P. Balaz, Subramani, Albert Wendt, Miriam Fuchs, Christopher Bongie, Terese Svoboda, Tsushima Yuko, Leo Ching, Thomas Carmichael, Peter Schwenger, John Whittier Treat, Theophil Saret Reuney
- Pages: 368
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- Introduction: Asia/Pacific as Space of Cultural Production / Rob Wilson and Arif Dirlik 1
- Mappings
- Foundations of the American Image of the Pacific / M. Consuelo Le�n 17
- Pacific Rim Discourse: The U.S. Global Imaginary in the Late Cold War Years / Christopher L. Connery 30
- Chemical Weapons Discourse in the "South Pacific" / William A. Callahan and Steve Olive 57
- Shrinking the Pacific / Lawson Fusao Inada 80
- Memory / Lawson Fusao Inada 82
- Turning It Over / Lawson Fusao Inada 84
- Our Sea of Islands / Epeli Hau'ofa 86
- Movements
- Sacred Sites and the City: Urban Aboriginality, Ambivalence, and Modernity / John Fielder 101
- From the Politics of Identity to an Alternative Cultural Politics: On Taiwan Primoridal Inhabitants' A-systemic Movement / Chiu Yen Liang (Fred) 120
- Pasts and Futures
- Cultural Construction and Native Nationalism: Report from the Hawaiin Front / Jeffrey Tobin 147
- Hawai'i / Haunani-Kay Trask 170
- Da Mainland to Me / Joseph P. Balaz 175
- Childhood as Fiction / Subramani 177
- Three Poems for Kenzaburo Oe / Albert Wendt 204
- Reading toward the Indigenous Pacific: Patricia Grace's Potiki, a Case Study / Miriam Fuchs 206
- The Last Frontier: Memories of the Postcolonial Future in Keri Hulme's the bone people / Chris Bongie 226
- The 747 Poem / Terese Svoboda 250
- The Little Grass Shack / Terese Svoboda 251
- Flows
- The Possibility of Imagination in These Islands / Tsushima Yuko (Translated by Geraldine Harcourt; Introduction by Masao Miyoshi) 255
- Imaginings in the Empires of the Sun: Japanese Mass Culture in Asia / Leo Ching 262
- The Hong Kong Immigrant and the Urban Landscape: Shaping the Transnational Cosmopolitanism in the Era of Pacific Rim Capital / Katharyne Mitchell 284
- Postmodernism and American Cultural Difference: Dispatches, Mystery Train, and The Art of Japanese Management / Thomas Carmichael 311
- America's Hiroshima, Hiroshima's America / Peter Schwenger and John Whittier Treat 324
- The Pulling of Olap's Canoe / Theophil Saret Rueney, translator 345
- Contributors 351
- Index 355
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- Rob Wilson
- Arif Dirlik
- M. Consuelo León W.
- Christopher Connery
- Steve Olive
- Lawson Fusao Inada
- Epeli Hau'ofa
- John Fielder
- Chiu Yen Liang
- Haunani-Kay Trask
- Joseph P. Balaz
- Subramani
- Albert Wendt
- Miriam Fuchs
- Christopher Bongie
- Terese Svoboda
- Tsushima Yuko
- Leo Ching
- Thomas Carmichael
- Peter Schwenger
- John Whittier Treat
- Theophil Saret Reuney
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Description
The Pacific, long a source of fantasies for EuroAmerican consumption and a testing ground for the development of EuroAmerican production, is often misrepresented by the West as one-dimensional, culturally monolithic. Although the Asia/Pacific region occupies a prominent place in geopolitical thinking, little is available to readers outside the region concerning the resistant communities and cultures of Pacific and Asian peoples. Asia/Pacific as Space of Cultural Production fills that gap by documenting the efforts of diverse indigenous cultures to claim and reimagine Asia/Pacific as a space for their own cultural production.
From New Zealand to Japan, Taiwan to Hawaii, this innovative volume presents essays, poems, and memoirs by prominent Asia/Pacific writers that resist appropriation by transnational capitalism through the articulation of autonomous local identities and counter-histories of place and community. In addition, cultural critics spanning several locations and disciplines deconstruct representations—particularly those on film and in novels—that perpetuate Asia/Pacific as a realm of EuroAmerican fantasy.
This collection, a much expanded edition of boundary 2, offers a new perception of the Asia/Pacific region by presenting the Pacific not as a paradise or vast emptiness, but as a place where living, struggling peoples have constructed contemporary identities out of a long history of hegemony and resistance. Asia/Pacific as Space of Cultural Production will prove stimulating to readers with an interest in the Asia/Pacific region, and to scholars in the fields of Asian, American, Pacific, postcolonial, and cultural studies.Contributors. Joseph P. Balaz, Chris Bongie, William A. Callahan, Thomas Carmichael, Leo Ching, Chiu Yen Liang (Fred), Chungmoo Choi, Christopher L. Connery, Arif Dirlik, John Fielder, Miriam Fuchs, Epeli Hau`ofa, Lawson Fusao Inada, M. Consuelo León W., Katharyne Mitchell, Masao Miyoshi, Steve Olive, Theophil Saret Reuney, Peter Schwenger, Subramani, Terese Svoboda, Jeffrey Tobin, Haunani-Kay Trask, John Whittier Treat, Tsushima Yuko, Albert Wendt, Rob Wilson
About The Author(s)
Rob Wilson is Professor of Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz and the author of Reimagining the American Pacific.
Arif Dirlik is Professor of History at Duke University and the editor of What Is in a Rim?
