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 Nalani 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
 

Birte Blascheck

J. Michael Dash

Paul Giles

Susan Gillman

Matthew Guterl

Hsinya Huang

Allan Punzalan Isaac

Joseph Keith

Brandy Nalani McDougall

Yolanda Martinez-San Miguel

Ifeoma Nwankwo

John Carlos Rowe

Cherene Sherrard-Johnson

Alice Te Punga Somerville

Ramón E. Soto-Crespo

Elaine Stratford

Etsuko Taketani

Teresia Teaiwa

Lanny Thompson

Nicole A. Waligora-Davis

"This book will become seminal for two key reasons at least: (1) it comprehensively demonstrates the Americas are archipelagic; and (2) it pushes relational thinking further than to date, suggesting we are now straining at some older concepts and verging on new theoretical frameworks. In doing so, Archipelagic American Studies both speaks back to American studies and cultural studies, and develops useful theoretical
concerns for island studies scholars, and others invested in wider relational and archipelagic turns." — Jonathan Pugh, Island Studies Journal

“A transformative series of essays. Archipelagic American Studies sets an important new course toward geographic, political, and cultural recognition of Island spaces and places.” — Rebecca Hogue, The Contemporary Pacific

"This book will become seminal for two key reasons at least: (1) it comprehensively demonstrates the Americas are archipelagic; and (2) it pushes relational thinking further than to date, suggesting we are now straining at some older concepts and verging on new theoretical frameworks. In doing so, Archipelagic American Studies both speaks back to American studies and cultural studies, and develops useful theoretical
concerns for island studies scholars, and others invested in wider relational and archipelagic turns." —Jonathan Pugh, Island Studies Journal

“A transformative series of essays. Archipelagic American Studies sets an important new course toward geographic, political, and cultural recognition of Island spaces and places.” —Rebecca Hogue, The Contemporary Pacific

"Archipelagic American Studies offers an expansive, liberating vision of archipelagic, island, and American studies as well as the discourses and material relations that implicate US imperialism and the locations and articulations of power." — Gary Y. Okihiro, author of, Island World: A History of Hawai`i and the United States

"Brilliant, transformative, and a model of engaging scholarship, Archipelagic American Studies offers a bracing challenge to reevaluate and reimagine the ways in which we structure knowledge in American studies. A conceptually innovative and highly imaginative work." — Shelley Fisher Fishkin, author of, Writing America: Literary Landmarks from Walden Pond to Wounded Knee

"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 pathbreaking edited volume." — Anthony Bogues, Brown University

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