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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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 a global assemblage of interconnected islands, archipelagos, shorelines, continents, seas, and oceans. Zusammenfassung 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 a global assemblage of interconnected islands! archipelagos! shorelines! continents! seas! and oceans. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 N¿lani 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 ...
