{"product_id":"reimagining-the-american-pacific-from-south-pacific-to-bamboo-ridge-and-beyond-9780822325239","title":"Reimagining the American Pacific: From South Pacific to Bamboo Ridge and Beyond","description":"In this compelling critique Rob Wilson explores the creation of the \"Pacific Rim\" in the American imagination and how the concept has been variously adapted and resisted in Hawai'i, the Pacific Islands, New Zealand, and Australia. \u003ci\u003eReimagining the American Pacific\u003c\/i\u003e ranges from the nineteenth century to the present and draws on theories of postmodernism, transnationality, and post-Marxist geography to contribute to the ongoing discussion of what constitutes \"global\" and \"local.\"\u003cbr\u003eWilson begins by tracing the arrival of American commerce and culture in the Pacific through missionary and imperial forces in the nineteenth century and the parallel development of Asia\/Pacific as an idea. Using an impressive range of texts-from works by Herman Melville, James Michener, Maori and Western Samoan novelists, and Bamboo Ridge poets to \u003ci\u003eBaywatch\u003c\/i\u003e, films and musicals such as \u003ci\u003eSouth Pacific\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBlue Hawaii\u003c\/i\u003e, and native Hawaiian shark god poetry-Wilson illustrates what it means for a space to be \"regionalized.\" Claiming that such places become more open to transnational flows of information, labor, finance, media, and global commodities, he explains how they then become isolated, their borders simultaneously crossed and fixed. In the case of Hawai'i, Wilson argues that culturally innovative, risky forms of symbol making and a broader-more global-vision of local plight are needed to counterbalance the racism and increasing imbalance of cultural capital and goods in the emerging postplantation and tourist-centered economy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReimagining the American Pacific\u003c\/i\u003e leaves the reader with a new understanding of the complex interactions of global and local economies and cultures in a region that, since the 1970s, has been a leading trading partner of the United States. It is an engaging and provocative contribution to the fields of Asian and American studies, as well as those of cultural studies and theory, literary criticism, and popular culture.\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Rob Wilson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/24\/2000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.21lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.06w x 0.92d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780822325239\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2001 pg. 1130\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRob Wilson is Professor of Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the author of numerous books including\u003ci\u003e American Sublime: The Genealogy of a Poetic Genre\u003c\/i\u003e and several volumes of poetry, and coeditor of \u003ci\u003eGlobal\/Local: Cultural Production and the Transnational Imaginary\u003c\/i\u003e and of\u003ci\u003e Asia\/Pacific as Space of Cultural Production\u003c\/i\u003e, both published by Duke University Press.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40473703645299,"sku":"9.78082E+12","price":44.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_874071a1-506f-4511-8330-a1ef1c1a7e24.jpg?v=1664373580","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/reimagining-the-american-pacific-from-south-pacific-to-bamboo-ridge-and-beyond-9780822325239","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}