Archipelagic American Studies

Archipelagic American Studies

  • Auteur: Roberts, Brian Russell; Stephens, Michelle Ann
  • Éditeur: Duke University Press
  • ISBN: 9780822363354
  • eISBN Pdf: 9780822373209
  • Lieu de publication:  Durham , United States
  • Année de publication électronique: 2017
  • Mois : Mai
  • Pages: 520
  • Langue: Anglais
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 an assemblage of interconnected islands, archipelagoes, shorelines, continents, seas, and oceans. They trace these planet-spanning archipelagic connections in essays on topics ranging from Indigenous sovereignty to the work of Édouard Glissant, from Philippine call centers to US militarization in the Caribbean, and from the great Pacific garbage patch to enduring overlaps between US imperialism and a colonial Mexican archipelago. Shaking loose the straitjacket of continental exceptionalism that hinders and permeates Americanist scholarship, Archipelagic American Studies asserts a more relevant and dynamic approach for thinking about the geographic, cultural, and political claims of the United States within broader notions of America.
 
Contributors
Birte Blascheck, J. Michael Dash, Paul Giles, Susan Gillman, Matthew Pratt Guterl, Hsinya Huang, Allan Punzalan Isaac, Joseph Keith, Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel, Brandy Nālani McDougall, Ifeoma Kiddoe Nwankwo, Craig Santos Perez, Brian Russell Roberts, John Carlos Rowe, Cherene Sherrard-Johnson, Ramón E. Soto-Crespo, Michelle Ann Stephens, Elaine Stratford, Etsuko Taketani, Alice Te Punga Somerville, Teresia Teaiwa, Lanny Thompson, Nicole A. Waligora-Davis
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Editors’ Acknowledgments
  • Introduction. Archipelagic American Studies: Decontinentalizing the Study of American Culture
  • Part I. Theories and Methods for an Archipelagic American Studies
    • Chapter 1. Heuristic Geographies: Territories and Areas, Islands and Archipelagoes
    • Chapter 2. Imagining the Archipelago
  • Part II. Archipelagic Mappings and Meta-Geographies
    • Chapter 3. Guam and Archipelagic American Studies
    • Chapter 4. The Archipelagic Black Global Imaginary: Walter White’s Pacific Island Hopping
    • Chapter 5. It Takes an Archipelago to Compare Otherwise
  • Part III. Empires and Archipelagoes
    • Chapter 6. Colonial and Mexican Archipelagoes: Reimagining Colonial Caribbean Studies
    • Chapter 7. Invisible Islands: Remapping the Transpacific Archipelago of US Empire in Carlos Bulosan’s America Is in the Heart
    • Chapter 8. “Myth of the Continents”: American Vulnerabilities and “Rum and Coca-Cola”
  • Part IV: Islands of Resistance
    • Chapter 9. “Shades of Paradise”: Craig Santos Perez’s Transpacific Voyages
    • Chapter 10. Insubordinate Islands and Coastal Chaos: Pauline Hopkins’s Literary Land/Seascapes
    • Chapter 11. “We are not American”: Competing Rhetorical Archipelagoes in Hawai‘i
  • Part V. Ecologies of Relation
    • Chapter 12. Performing Archipelagic Identities in Bill Reid, Robert Sullivan, and Syaman Rapongan
    • Chapter 13. Archipelagic Trash: Despised Forms in the Cultural History of the Americas
    • Chapter 14. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch as Metaphor: The (American) Pacific You Can’t See
  • Part VI. Insular Imaginaries
    • Chapter 15. The Tropics of Josephine: Space, Time, and Hybrid Movements
    • Chapter 16. The Stranger by the Shore: The Archipelization of Caliban in Antillean Theatre
  • Part VII. Migrating Identities, Moving Borders
    • Chapter 17. The Governors-General: Caribbean Canadian and Pacific New Zealand Success Stories
    • Chapter 18. Living the West Indian Dream: Archipelagic Cosmopolitanism and Triangulated Economies of Desire in Jamaican Popular Culture
    • Chapter 19. Offshore Identities: Ruptures in the 300-Second Average Handling Time
    • Afterword. The Archipelagic Accretion
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Contributors
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