| ISBN13: | 9781501389368 |
| ISBN10: | 150138936X |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| No. of pages: | pages |
| Size: | 228x152 mm |
| Language: | English |
| Illustrations: | 10 bw illus |
| 674 |
Pacific Literatures as World Literature
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Examines trans-Pacific poets and writers to suggest a different way of understanding Oceanic literature and its place in world literature.
Pacific Literatures as World Literature is a conjuration of trans-Pacific poets and writers whose work enacts forces of "becoming oceanic" and suggests a different mode of understanding, viewing, and belonging to the world. The Pacific, past and present, remains uneasily amenable to territorial demarcations of national or marine sovereignty. At the same time, as a planetary element necessary to sustaining life and well-being, the Pacific could become the means to envisioning ecological solidarity, if compellingly framed in terms that elicit consent and inspire an imagination of co-belonging and care. The Pacific can signify a bioregional site of coalitional promise as much as a danger zone of antagonistic peril.
With ground-breaking writings from authors based in North America, Japan, Taiwan, Korea, Hawaii, and Guam and new modes of research - including multispecies ethnography and practice, ecopoetics, and indigenous cosmopolitics - authors explore the socio-political significance of the Pacific and contribute to the development of a collective effort of comparative Pacific studies covering a refreshingly broad, ethnographically grounded range of research themes. This volume aims to decenter continental/land poetics as such via long-standing transnational Pacific ties, re-worlding Pacific literature as world literature.
Foreword
Syaman Ranpongan (Pongso no Tao, Taiwan)
Introduction
Hsinya Huang (National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan)
Chiahua Lin (University of Hawai'i at Manoa)
Part I Colonialism: The Pacific Ocean
1. The Wilkes Expedition (1838-1842) and the Formation of a U.S. Empire of Bases in the Pacific
John R. Eperjesi (Kyung Hee University, South Korea)
2. Epeli Hau'ofa's Pronouns
Paul Lyons (University of Hawai'i at Manoa, USA)
3. Mountains of Taiwan, Japanese Colonization, and Western Science
Chia-Li Kao (National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan)
4. Demilitarization and Decolonization in CHamoru Literature from Gu?han (Guam)
Craig Santos Perez (University of Hawai'i at Manoa, USA)
Part II Indigenous Resistance to Colonialism
5. Decolonizing Guam with Poetry: "Everyday Objects with Mission" in Craig Santos Perez's Poetry
Anna Erzsebet Szucs (Independent scholar, Hungary)
6. Remapping Manoa Valley in Hawaiian Literature
Chia Hua Lin (University of Hawai'i at Manoa, USA)
7. Planetary Boundaries, Planetary Imaginaries: Homing Pacific Eco-poetry
Hsinya Huang (National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan)
8. The Ecological Vision of the Ainu Reflected in Their Oral Tradition
Hitoshi Oshima (Fukuoka University, Japan)
Part III Ocean and Ecology
9. Becoming Oceania: Towards a Planetary Ecopoetics, Or Reframing the Pacific Rim
Rob Wilson (University of California at Santa Cruz, USA)
10. Island Imaginations, Bioregionalism, and the Environmental Humanities
Kathryn Yalan Chang (National Taitung University, Taiwan)
11. Decolonizing Oceanic Realms: Voices from Australia Pacific
Iris Ralph (Tamkang University, Taiwan)
12. Whale as Cosmos: Multi-species Ethnography and Contemporary Indigenous Cosmopolitics
Joni Adamson (Arizona State University, USA)
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Index
