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Archipelagic American studies
Title
Archipelagic American studies / Brian Russell Roberts & Michelle Ann Stephens, editors.
ISBN
9780822363354
0822363356
9780822363460
0822363461
9780822373209
0822373203
9780822373209
Publication
Durham : Duke University Press, 2017.
Physical Description
xiii, 478 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Summary
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, 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.
Other formats
Online version: Archipelagic American studies. Durham : Duke University Press, 2017
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 19, 2021
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 437-452) and index.
Contents
Introduction: Archipelagic American studies: decontinentalizing the study of American culture / Brian Russell Roberts and Michelle Ann Stephens
Theories and methods for an Archipelagic American studies
Heuristic geographies: territories and areas, islands and archipelagoes / Lanny Thompson
Imagining the archipelago / Elaine Stratford
Archipelagic mappings and meta-geographies
Guam and Archipelagic American studies / Craig Santos Perez
The Archipelagic black global imaginary: Walter White's Pacific Island hopping / Etsuko Taketani
It takes an archipelago to compare otherwise / Susan Gillman
Empires and archipelagoes
Colonial and Mexican archipelagoes: reimagining Colonial Caribbean studies / Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel
Invisible islands: remapping the transpacific archipelago of US Empire in Carlos Bulosan's America is in the heart / Joseph Keith
Myth of the continents: American vulnerabilities and Rum and Coca-cola? / Nicole A. Waligora-Davis
Islands of resistance
Shades of paradise: Craig Santos Perez's transpacific voyages / John Carlos Rowe
Insubordinate islands and coastal chaos: Pauline Hopkins's literary land/seascapes / Cherene Sherrard-Johnson
We are not American: competing rhetorical archipelagoes in Hawai / Brandy N'lani McDougall
Ecologies of relation
Performing archipelagic identities in Bill Reid, Robert Sullivan, and Syaman Rapongan / Hsinya Huang
Archipelagic trash: despised forms in the cultural history of the Americas / Ramcentn E. Soto-Crespo
The great Pacific garbage patch as metaphor: the (American) pacific you can't see / Alice Te Punga Somerville
Insular imaginaries
The tropics of Josephine: space, time, and hybrid movements / Matthew Pratt Guterl
The stranger by the shore: the archipelization of Caliban in Antillean theatre / J. Michael Dash
Migrating identities, moving borders
The Governors-general: Caribbean Canadian and Pacific New Zealand success stories / Birte Blascheck and Teresia Teaiwa
Living the West Indian dream: archipelagic cosmopolitanism and triangulated economies of desire in Jamaican popular culture / Ifeoma Kiddoe Nwankwo
Offshore identities: ruptures in the 300-second average handling time / Allan Punzalan Isaac
Afterword the archipelagic accretion / Paul Giles.
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