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ARCHIPELAGIC AMERICAN STUDIES This page intentionally left blank ARCHIPELAGIC AMERICAN STUDIES brian russell roberts & michelle ann stephens, editors DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS Durham and London | 2017 © 2017 Duke University Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of Amer i ca on acid- free paper ∞ Text designed by Jennifer Hill Typeset in Minion Pro by Westchester Publishing Services Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data Names: Roberts, Brian Russell, editor. | Stephens, Michelle Ann, [date] editor. Title: Archipelagic American studies / Brian Russell Roberts and Michelle Ann Stephens, editors. Description: Durham : Duke University Press, 2017. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: lccn 2016050803 (print) | lccn 2016056567 (ebook) isbn 9780822363354 (hardcover : alk. paper) isbn 9780822363460 (pbk. : alk. paper) isbn 9780822373209 (e- book) Subjects: lcsh: United States— Insular possessions— History. | United States— Territories and possessions— History. | United States— Colonial question. | Ca rib bean Area— History. | Islands of the Pacific— History. |Philippines— History. Classification: lcc F970 .A734 2017 (print) | lcc F970 (ebook) | ddc 973— dc23 lc rec ord available at https:// lccn . loc . gov /2016050803 Cover art: Fidalis Buehler, White Cloud Caution Flasher, oil painting on panel, 18" × 20". Courtesy of the artist. For our parents— Carole Audrey Stephens, George Stephens, Catherine Lee Roberts, and Roland Keith Roberts— whose lives have shaped the ways we see this terraqueous world This page intentionally left blank CONTENTS Editors’ Acknowl edgments xi introduction ARCHIPELAGIC AMERICAN STUDIES Decontinentalizing the Study of American Culture Brian Russell Roberts & Michelle Ann Stephens 1 THEORIES AND METHODS PART I FOR AN ARCHIPELAGIC AMERICAN STUDIES chapter 1 HEURISTIC GEOGRAPHIES Territories and Areas, Islands and Archipelagoes Lanny Thompson 57 chapter 2 IMAGINING THE ARCHIPELAGO Elaine Stratford 74 ARCHIPELAGIC MAPPINGS PART II AND META- GEOGRAPHIES chapter 3 GUAM AND ARCHIPELAGIC AMERICAN STUDIES Craig Santos Perez 97 chapter 4 THE ARCHIPELAGIC BLACK GLOBAL IMAGINARY Walter White’s Pacific Island Hopping Etsuko Taketani 113 chapter 5 IT TAKES AN ARCHIPELAGO TO COMPARE OTHER WISE Susan Gillman 133 PART III EMPIRES AND ARCHIPELAGOES chapter 6 COLONIAL AND MEXICAN ARCHIPELAGOES Reimagining Colonial Ca rib bean Studies Yolanda Martínez- San Miguel 155 chapter 7 INVISIBLE ISLANDS Remapping the Transpacific Archipelago of US Empire in Carlos Bulosan’s Amer i ca Is in the Heart Joseph Keith 174 chapter 8 “MYTH OF THE CONTINENTS” American Vulnerabilities and “Rum and Coca- Cola” Nicole A. Waligora- Davis 191 PART IV ISLANDS OF RE SIS TANCE chapter 9 “SHADES OF PARADISE” Craig Santos Perez’s Transpacific Voyages John Carlos Rowe 213 chapter 10 INSUBORDINATE ISLANDS AND COASTAL CHAOS Pauline Hopkins’s Literary Land/Seascapes Cherene Sherrard- Johnson 232 chapter 11 “WE ARE NOT AMERICAN” Competing Rhetorical Archipelagoes in Hawai‘i Brandy Nālani McDougall 259 viii | Contents PART V ECOLOGIES OF RELATION chapter 12 PERFORMING ARCHIPELAGIC IDENTITIES IN BILL REID, ROBERT SULLIVAN, AND SYAMAN RAPONGAN Hsinya Huang 281 chapter 13 ARCHIPELAGIC TRASH Despised Forms in the Cultural History of the Amer i cas Ramón E. Soto- Crespo 302 chapter 14 THE GREAT PACIFIC GARBAGE PATCH AS META PHOR The (American) Pacific You Can’t See Alice Te Punga Somerville 320 PART VI INSULAR IMAGINARIES chapter 15 THE TROPICS OF JOSEPHINE Space, Time, and Hybrid Movements Matthew Pratt Guterl 341 chapter 16 THE STRANGER BY THE SHORE The Archipelization of Caliban in Antillean Theatre J. Michael Dash 356 PART VII MIGRATING IDENTITIES, MOVING BORDERS chapter 17 THE GOVERNORS- GENERAL Caribbean Canadian and Pacific New Zealand Success Stories Birte Blascheck & Teresia Teaiwa 373 Contents | ix
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