Navigating Islands and Continents: Conversations and Contestations in and Around the Pacific : Selected Essays

by Franklin, Cynthia; Hsu, Ruth; Kosanke, Suzanne

• ISBN13: 9780824823658
• ISBN10: 0824823656
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-05-01
• Publisher: Univ of Hawaii Pr

Summary

This is a collection of essays, poems, and interviews that explores the interrelations among Pacific, Asian, and continental U.S. identities and literatures.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xi
Editors' Note	xiii
Introduction	xv
Cynthia Franklin
Warriors
Thirst	3	(1)
Kathy Dee Kaleokealoha Kaloloahilani Banggo
Women as Warriors: The Philippine Revolutionary Context	4	(20)
John Witeck
Metaphors of Protest: Anti-Colonial and Nationalistic Themes as Tradition in Tagalog Poetry	24	(16)
Ruth Elynia S. Mabanglo
Of Daffodils and Heilala: Understanding (Cultural) Context in Pacific Literature	40	(11)
Konai Helu Thaman
Writing in Captivity: Poetry in a Time of De-Colonization	51	(5)
Haunani-Kay Trask
Westlake	56	(7)
Richard Hamasaki
Re-siting Asian/American Studies
Failed Performances of the Nation in Gish Jen's Typical American	63	(17)
Rachel Lee
Secret Asian Man and Other Invisible Asians: Race as Theater in Miss Saigon	80	(21)
Misa Oyama
Can Asian American Studies Abandon ``Nation''?	101	(16)
David Leiwei Li
Diasporic Identities, Global/Local Motions
I, Islands: Mapping the Intersections of History, Fiction, and Self	117	(15)
Ami R. Mattison
Texting Bodies: Notes on Language, Writing, Desire	132	(11)
Aneil Rallin
Transmigration and Transformation: The Chinese in Tahiti	143	(14)
Carol C. Fan
A Conversation with Masao Miyoshi	157	(16)
Kuan-Hsing Chen
Steve Bradbury
The Diasporic Imagination	173	(14)
Subramani
Shark God on Trial: Invoking Ka-Lani-`Opu`u in the Local/Indigenous/American Struggle for Place	187	(22)
Rob Wilson
The Costs of Tourism and Capitalism
Tourist	209	(1)
Haunani-Kay Traks
Lahaina, 1995	210	(1)
Haunani-Kay Trask
E utu	211	(4)
Richard Hamasaki
Storied Land
Menehune Pond	215	(1)
Kathy Dee Kaleokealoha Kaloloahilani Banggo
A Search for Ku`Ula-Kai	216	(16)
Dennis Kawaharada
Hero or Outlaw? Two Views of Kaluaiko`Olau	232	(32)
Ku`ualoha Meyer Ho`omanawanui
Sky Watah	264	(3)
Joe Balaz
Artificial Curiosities	267	(4)
Richard Hamasaki
About the Contributors	271	(4)
About the Editors	275