Oceanic archives, indigenous epistemologies, and transpacific American studies / edited by Yuan Shu, Otto Heim, Kendall Johnson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Shu, Yuan, 1963- editor.

Heim, Otto, editor.

Johnson, Kendall L., editor.

JSTOR (Online Service)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Historiography.

United States.

Historiography.

United States--History--Sources.

History.

Genre:

Sources.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (295 pages) : illustrations (black and white

Place of Publication:

Hong Kong : HKU Press, 2019.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Part I: Reading oceanic archives in a transnational space : ocean history, Spanish Manila, and the world geography of faith in the early United States

American and international whaling, c.1770-1820 : toward an ocean history / James R. Fichter

Spanish Manila : a transpacific maritime enterprise and America's first Chinatown / Evelyn Hu-DeHart

Residing in "south-eastern Asia" of the Antebellum United States : Reverend David Abeel and the world geography of American print evangelism and commerce / Kendall Johnson

Part II : Oceanic archives and the transterritorial turn : constituting the "public," genealogizing colonial and indigenous translations

"Thank God for the maladjusted" : the transterritorial turn towards the Chamorro poetry of Guåhan (Guam) / Craig Santos Perez

Land, history, and the law : constituting the "public" through environmentalism and annexation / Susan Y. Najita

Genealogizing colonial and indigenous translations and publications of the Kumulipo / Brandy Nālani McDougall

Part III : Remapping transpacific studies : oceanic archives of Imperialim/s, transpacific imagination, and memories of murder

The open ocean for interimperial collaboration : scientists' networks across and in the Pacific Ocean in the 1920s / Tmoko Akami

Maxine Hong Kingston's transpacific imagination : from the talk story of the "No-Name Woman" to the Book of Peace / Yuan Shu

Memories of murder : the other Korean War (in Viet Nam ) / Viet Thanh Nguyen

Part IV : Revisiting oceanic archives, rethinking transnational American studies : next steps, oceanic communities, and transpacific ecopoetics

Transnational American studies : next steps? / Shelley Fisher Fishkin

Recalling oceanic communities : the transnational theater of John Kneubuhl and Victoria Nalani Kenubhul / Otto Heim

Oceania as peril and promise : towards theorizing a worlded vision of transpacific ecopoetics / Rob Wilson.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ebook version :

ISBN:

9789882204034

9882204031

Publisher Number:

40029363453

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