Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgments viii
5. Introduction: Oceanic Archives, Indigenous Epistemologies, and Transpacific American Studies 1
6. Part I: Reading Oceanic Archives in a Transnational Space: Ocean History, Spanish Manila, and the World Geography of Faith in the Early United States
7. 1. American and International Whaling, c.1770–1820: Toward an Ocean History 23
8. 2. Spanish Manila: A Transpacific Maritime Enterprise and America's First Chinatown 49
9. 3. Residing in “South-Eastern Asia” of the Antebellum United States: Reverend David Abeel and the World Geography of American Print Evangelism and Commerce 62
10. Part II: Oceanic Archives and the Transterritorial Turn: Constituting the “Public,” Genealogizing Colonial and Indigenous Translations
11. 4. “Thank God for the Maladjusted”: The Transterritorial Turn towards the Chamorro Poetry of Guåhan (Guam) 91
12. 5. Land, History, and the Law: Constituting the “Public” through Environmentalism and Annexation 108
13. 6. Genealogizing Colonial and Indigenous Translations and Publications of the Kumulipo 129
14. Part III: Remapping Transpacific Studies: Oceanic Archives of Imperialism/s, Transpacific Imagination, and Memories of Murder
15. 7. The Open Ocean for Interimperial Collaboration: Scientists' Networks across and in the Pacific Ocean in the 1920s 147
16. 8. Maxine Hong Kingston’s Transpacific Imagination: From the Talk Story of the “No-Name Woman” to the Book of Peace 172
17. 9. Memories of Murder: The Other Korean War (in Viet Nam) 188
18. Part IV: Revisiting Oceanic Archives, Rethinking Transnational American Studies: Next Steps, Oceanic Communities, and Transpacific Ecopoetics
19. 10. Transnational American Studies: Next Steps? 215
20. 11. Recalling Oceanic Communities: The Transnational Theater of John Kneubuhl and Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl 239
21. 12. Oceania as Peril and Promise: Towards Theorizing a Worlded Vision of Transpacific Ecopoetics 261
22. Contributors 283
23. Index 286