Asia/Pacific as Space of Cultural Production

Asia/Pacific as Space of Cultural Production

  • Autor: Wilson, Rob; Dirlik, Arif
  • Editor: Duke University Press
  • ISBN: 9780822316299
  • eISBN Pdf: 9780822396116
  • Lloc de publicació:  Durham , United States
  • Any de publicació digital: 1995
  • Mes: Gener
  • Pàgines: 368
  • DDC: 950
  • Idioma: Anglés
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

  • Contents
  • Rob Wilson and Arif Dirlik / Introduction: Asia/Pacific as Space of Cultural Production
  • Mappings
    • M. Consuelo León W. / Foundations of the American Image of the Pacific
    • Christopher L. Connery / Pacific Rim Discourse: The U.S. Global Imaginary in the Late Cold War Years
    • William A. Callahan and Steve Olive / Chemical Weapons Discourse in the "South Pacific"
    • Lawson Fusao Inada / Shrinking the Pacific
    • Lawon Fusao Inada / Memory
    • Lawon Fusao Inada / Turning It Over
    • Epeli Hau'ofa / Our Sea of Islands
  • Movements
    • John Fielder / Sacred Sites and the City: Urban Aboriginality, Ambivalence, and Modernity
    • Chiu Yen Liang (Fred) / From the Politics of Identity to an Alternative Cultural Politics: On Taiwan Primordial Inhabitants' A-systemic Movement
  • Pasts and Futures
    • Jeffrey Tobin / Cultural Construction and Native Nationalism: Report from the Hawaiian Front
    • Haunani-Kay Trask / Hawai'i
    • Joseph P. Balaz / Da Mainland to Me
    • Subramani / Childhood as a Fiction
    • Albert Wendt / Three Poems for Kenzaburo Oe
    • Miriam Fuchs / Reading toward the Indigenous Pacific: Patricia Grace's Potiki, a Case Study
    • Chris Bongie / The Last Frontier: Memories of the Postcolonial Future in Keri Hulme's the bone people
    • Terese Svoboda / The 747 Poem
    • Terese Svoboda / The Little Grass Shack
  • Flows
    • Tsushima Yuko / The Possibility of Imagination in These Islands / Geraldine Harcourt, trans. / Introduction by Masao Miyoshi
    • Leo Ching / Imaginings in the Empires of the Sun: Japanese Mass Culture in Asia
    • Katharyne Mitchell / The Hong Kong Immigrant and the Urban Landscape: Shaping the Transnational Cosmopolitan in the Era of Pacific Rim Capital
    • Thomas Carmichael / Postmodernism and American Cultural Difference: Dispatches, Mystery Train, and The Art of Japanese Management
    • Peter Schwenger and John Whittlier Treat / America's Hiroshima, Hiroshima's America
    • Theophil Saret Reuney, trans. / The Pulling of Olap's Canoe
  • Contributors
  • Index

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