Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction: Asia/Pacific as Space of Cultural Production 1
4. Mappings
5. Foundations of the American Image of the Pacific 17
6. Pacific Rim Discourse: The U.S. Global Imaginary in the Late Cold War Years 30
7. Chemical Weapons Discourse in the "South Pacific" 57
8. Shrinking the Pacific 80
9. Memory 82
10. Turning It Over 84
11. Our Sea of Islands 86
12. Movements
13. Sacred Sites and the City: Urban Aboriginality, Ambivalence, and Modernity 101
14. From the Politics of Identity to an Alternative Cultural Politics: On Taiwan Primordial Inhabitants' A-systemic Movement 120
15. Pasts and Futures
16. Cultural Construction and Native Nationalism: Report from the Hawaiian Front 147
17. Hawai'i 170
18. Da mainland to me 175
19. Childhood as a Fiction 177
20. Three Poems for Kenzaburo Oe 204
21. Reading toward the Indigenous Pacific: Patricia Grace's Potiki, a Case Study 206
22. The Last Frontier: Memories of the Postcolonial Future in Keri Hulme's the bone people 226
23. The 747 Poem 250
24. The Little Grass Shack 251
25. Flows
26. The Possibility of Imagination in These Islands 255
27. Imaginings in the Empires of the Sun: Japanese Mass Culture in Asia 262
28. The Hong Kong Immigrant and the Urban Landscape: Shaping the Transnational Cosmopolitan in the Era of Pacific Rim Capital 284
29. Postmodernism and American Cultural Difference: Dispatches, Mystery Train, and The Art of Japanese Management 311
30. America's Hiroshima, Hiroshima's America 324
31. The Pulling of Olap's Canoe 345
32. Contributors 351
33. Index 355