LEADER 04518nam 22006134 450 001 9910825154903321 005 20140904031001.0 010 $a0-8223-2523-3 010 $a0-8223-8097-8 024 7 $a10.1515/9780822380979 035 $a(CKB)3710000000243820 035 $a(OCoLC)893681874 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10933675 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001352069 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11751715 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001352069 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11309607 035 $a(PQKB)11535283 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3008117 035 $a(OCoLC)1139384779 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse79254 035 $a889928079 035 $a(DE-B1597)554453 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780822380979 035 $a(OCoLC)1226679667 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000243820 100 $a20140903d2000 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aReimagining the American Pacific $efrom South Pacific to Bamboo Ridge and beyond /$fRob Wilson 210 1$aDurham, NC :$cDuke University Press,$d2000. 215 $a1 online resource (317 p.) 225 1 $aNew Americanists 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8223-2500-4 311 $a1-322-15195-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tPreface: Searching for "the local": Hawai'i as Miss Universe? --$tIntroduction: "How Did You Find America?": On Becoming Asia/Pacific --$g1.$tImaging "Asia-Pacific" Today: Forgetting Colonialisms in the Magical Waters of the Pacific --$g2.$tAmerican Trajectories into Hawai'i and the Pacific: Imperial Mappings, Postcolonial Contestations --$g3.$tMegatrends and Micropolitics in the American Pacific: Tracing Some "Local Motions" from Mark Twain to Bamboo Ridge --$g4.$tBlue Hawai'i: Bamboo Ridge as "Critical Regionalism" --$g5.$tBloody Mary Meets Lois-Ann Yamanaka: Imagining Hawaiian Locality, from South Pacific to Bamboo Ridge and Beyond --$g6.$tShark God on Trial: Invoking Chief Ka-lani-o'pu'u in the Local/Indigenous/American Struggle for Place 330 $aIn this compelling critique Rob Wilson explores the creation of the ?Pacific Rim? in the American imagination and how the concept has been variously adapted and resisted in Hawai?i, the Pacific Islands, New Zealand, and Australia. Reimagining the American Pacific ranges from the nineteenth century to the present and draws on theories of postmodernism, transnationality, and post-Marxist geography to contribute to the ongoing discussion of what constitutes ?global? and ?local.?Wilson begins by tracing the arrival of American commerce and culture in the Pacific through missionary and imperial forces in the nineteenth century and the parallel development of Asia/Pacific as an idea. Using an impressive range of texts?from works by Herman Melville, James Michener, Maori and Western Samoan novelists, and Bamboo Ridge poets to Baywatch, films and musicals such as South Pacific and Blue Hawaii, and native Hawaiian shark god poetry?Wilson illustrates what it means for a space to be ?regionalized.? Claiming that such places become more open to transnational flows of information, labor, finance, media, and global commodities, he explains how they then become isolated, their borders simultaneously crossed and fixed. In the case of Hawai?i, Wilson argues that culturally innovative, risky forms of symbol making and a broader?more global?vision of local plight are needed to counterbalance the racism and increasing imbalance of cultural capital and goods in the emerging postplantation and tourist-centered economy.Reimagining the American Pacific leaves the reader with a new understanding of the complex interactions of global and local economies and cultures in a region that, since the 1970s, has been a leading trading partner of the United States. It is an engaging and provocative contribution to the fields of Asian and American studies, as well as those of cultural studies and theory, literary criticism, and popular culture. 410 0$aNew Americanists. 606 $aPublic opinion$zPacific Area 607 $aPacific Area$xCivilization 615 0$aPublic opinion 676 $a909/.09823 700 $aWilson$b Rob$f1947-$01721440 801 0$bNDD 801 1$bNDD 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910825154903321 996 $aReimagining the American Pacific$94121078 997 $aUNINA