CODA Part Italian, Part Many Things Else: Creating "Asia/ Pacific" along a Honolulu-Taipei Line of Flight

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface Searching for "the Local": Hawai'i as Miss Universe? vii
4. INTRODUCTION "How Did You Find America?": On Becoming Asia/ Pacific 1
5. 1. Imagining "Asia-Pacific" Today: Forgetting Colonialisms in the Magical Waters of the Pacific 25
6. 2. American Trajectories into Hawai'i and the Pacific: Imperial Mappings, Postcolonial Contestations 57
7. 3. Megatrends and Micropolitics in the American Pacific: Tracing Some "Local Motions" from Mark Twain to Bamboo Ridge 89
8. 4. Blue Hawai'i: Bamboo Ridge as "Critical Regionalism" 125
9. 5. Bloody Mary Meets Lois-Ann Yamanaka: Imagining Hawaiian Locality, from South Pacific to Bamboo Ridge and Beyond 163
10. 6. Shark God on Trial: Invoking Chief Ka-Iani-o'pu'u in the Local/Indigenous/ American Struggle for Place 191
11. 7. Good-Bye Paradise: Theorizing Place, Poetics, and Cultural Production in the American Pacific 215
12. 8. Becoming Global and Local in the U.S. Transnational Imaginary of the Pacific 245
13. 9. Postmodem X: Honolulu Traces 269
14. CODA Part Italian, Part Many Things Else: Creating "Asia/ Pacific" along a Honolulu-Taipei Line of Flight 273
15. Index 285