Archipelagic American studies /

Archipelagic American studies /

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Imprint:Durham : Duke University Press, 2017.
Description:xiii, 478 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language:English
Subject:
Territorial expansion.
United States -- Insular possessions -- History.
United States -- Territories and possessions -- History.
United States -- Colonial question.
Caribbean Area -- History.
Islands of the Pacific -- History.
Philippines -- History.
Caribbean Area.
Pacific Ocean -- Islands of the Pacific.
Philippines.
United States.
History.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11316717
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Other authors / contributors:Roberts, Brian Russell, editor.
Stephens, Michelle Ann, 1969- editor.
ISBN:9780822363354 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0822363356 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780822363460 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0822363461 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780822373209 (ebook)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 437-452) and index.
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 EĢdouard 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 form:Online version: Archipelagic American studies Durham : Duke University Press, 2017 9780822373209
Table of 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
  • Index
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