Oceanic Archives, Indigenous Epistemology, and Transpacific American Studies /
This collection presents a map for the way forward in transpacific American studies and the papers demonstrate ways of realizing the rich potential of the new direction. In this volume Shelley Fisher Fishkin, a leader in the field, challenges her fellow scholars to make use of archives outside the U...
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| Other Authors / Creators: | Johnson, Kendall L., editor. Heim, Otto, editor. Shu, Yuan, 1963- editor. |
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| Format: | eBook Electronic |
| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2019 |
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| Online Access: | Click here for full text at Project MUSE |
Table of Contents:
- Part I. Reading oceanic archives in a transnational space : ocean history, Spanish Manila, and the world geography of faith in the early United States
- American and international whaling, c.1770-1820 : toward an ocean history / James R. Fichter
- Spanish Manila : a transpacific maritime enterprise and America's first Chinatown / Evelyn Hu-DeHart
- Residing in "south-eastern Asia" of the Antebellum United States : Reverend David Abeel and the world geography of American print evangelism and commerce / Kendall Johnson
- part II. Oceanic archives and the transterritorial turn : constituting the "public," genealogizing colonial and indigenous translations
- "Thank God for the maladjusted" : the transterritorial turn towards the Chamorro poetry of Guåhan (Guam) / Craig Santos Perez
- Land, history, and the law : constituting the "public" through environmentalism and annexation / Susan Y. Najita
- Genealogizing colonial and indigenous translations and publications of the Kumulipo / Brandy Nālani McDougall
- part III. Remapping transpacific studies : oceanic archives of imperialim/s, transpacific imagination, and memories of murder
- The open ocean for interimperial collaboration : scientists' networks across and in the Pacific Ocean in the 1920s / Tmoko Akami
- Maxine Hong Kingston's transpacific imagination : from the talk story of the "No-Name woman" to the Book of peace / Yuan Shu
- Memories of murder : the other Korean War (in Viet Nam) / Viet Thanh Nguyen
- part IV. Revisiting oceanic archives, rethinking transnational American studies : next steps, oceanic communities, and transpacific ecopoetics
- Transnational American studies : next steps? / Shelley Fisher Fishkin
- Recalling oceanic communities : the transnational theater of John Kneubuhl and Victoria Nalani Kenubhul / Otto Heim
- Oceania as peril and promise : towards theorizing a worlded vision of transpacific ecopoetics / Rob Wilson.