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Asia/Pacific as Space of Cultural Production (Paperback)
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Asia/Pacific as Space of Cultural Production (Paperback)
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The Pacific, long a source of fantasies for EuroAmerican
consumption and a testing ground for the development of
EuroAmerican production, is often misrepresented by the West as
one-dimensional, culturally monolithic. Although the Asia/Pacific
region occupies a prominent place in geopolitical thinking, little
is available to readers outside the region concerning the resistant
communities and cultures of Pacific and Asian peoples.
"Asia/Pacific as Space of Cultural Production" fills that gap by
documenting the efforts of diverse indigenous cultures to claim and
reimagine Asia/Pacific as a space for their own cultural
production.
From New Zealand to Japan, Taiwan to Hawaii, this innovative volume
presents essays, poems, and memoirs by prominent Asia/Pacific
writers that resist appropriation by transnational capitalism
through the articulation of autonomous local identities and
counter-histories of place and community. In addition, cultural
critics spanning several locations and disciplines deconstruct
representations--particularly those on film and in novels--that
perpetuate Asia/Pacific as a realm of EuroAmerican fantasy.
This collection, a much expanded edition of "boundary 2," offers a
new perception of the Asia/Pacific region by presenting the Pacific
not as a paradise or vast emptiness, but as a place where living,
struggling peoples have constructed contemporary identities out of
a long history of hegemony and resistance. "Asia/Pacific as Space
of Cultural Production" will prove stimulating to readers with an
interest in the Asia/Pacific region, and to scholars in the fields
of Asian, American, Pacific, postcolonial, and cultural studies.
"Contributors," Joseph P. Balaz, Chris Bongie, William A. Callahan,
Thomas Carmichael, Leo Ching, Chiu Yen Liang (Fred), Chungmoo Choi,
Christopher L. Connery, Arif Dirlik, John Fielder, Miriam Fuchs,
Epeli Hauofa, Lawson Fusao Inada, M. Consuelo Leon W., Katharyne
Mitchell, Masao Miyoshi, Steve Olive, Theophil Saret Reuney, Peter
Schwenger, Subramani, Terese Svoboda, Jeffrey Tobin, Haunani-Kay
Trask, John Whittier Treat, Tsushima Yuko, Albert Wendt, Rob
Wilson
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