Pacific literatures as world literature / edited by Hsinya Huang and Chia-hua Lin.

Other author Huang, Xinya.
Other author Lin, Chia-hua (Chia-hua Yvonne)
Format Electronic
Publication InfoNew York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2023.
Descriptionxii, 228 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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SeriesLiteratures as world literature
Contents Foreword : A writer's ocean / Syaman Ranpongan -- Introduction / Xinya Huang and Chia-hua Lin -- Colonialism : the Pacific Ocean. The Wilkes expedition (1838-1842) and the formation of a U.S. empire of bases in the Pacific / John R. Eperjesi -- Epeli Hau'ofa's pronouns / Paul Lyons -- Mountains of Taiwan, Japanese colonization, and Western science / Chia-Li Kao -- Demilitarization and decolonization in Chamoru literature from Guåhan (Guam) / Craig Santos Perez -- Indigenous resistance to colonialism. Decolonizing Guam with poetry : "everyday objects with mission" in Craig Santos Perez's poetry / Anna Erzebet Szucs -- Remapping Mānoa Valley in Hawaiian literature / Chia-hua Lin -- Planetary boundaries, planetary imaginaries : homing Pacific eco-poetry / Xinya Huang -- The ecological vision of the Ainu reflected in their oral tradition / Hitoshi Oshima -- Ocean and ecology. Becoming Oceania: towards a planetary ecopoetics, or Reframing the Pacific Rim / Rob Wilson -- Island imaginations, bioregionalism, and the environmental humanities / Kathryn Yalan Chang -- Decolonizing Oceanic realms : voices from Australia Pacific / Iris Ralph -- Whale as cosmos : multi-species ethnography and contemporary indigenous cosmopolitics / Joni Adamson.
Abstract "Examines trans-Pacific poets and writers to suggest a different way of understanding Oceanic literature and its place in world literature"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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