Research Catalog

Title

Archipelagic American studies / Brian Russell Roberts & Michelle Ann Stephens, editors.

Publication

Durham : Duke University Press, 2017.

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Additional Authors

• Roberts, Brian Russell
• Stephens, Michelle Ann, 1969-

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.

Subject

• 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

Bibliography (note)

• 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.

Call Number

JFE 17-9440

ISBN

• 9780822363354
• 0822363356
• 9780822363460
• 0822363461

LCCN

2016050803

OCLC

953985389

Title

Archipelagic American studies / Brian Russell Roberts & Michelle Ann Stephens, editors.

Publisher

Durham : Duke University Press, 2017.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 437-452) and index.

Added Author

Roberts, Brian Russell, editor.

Stephens, Michelle Ann, 1969- editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 17-9440