Brian Russell Roberts
Michelle Stephens
Table of Contents
24 April 2015
Archipelagic American Studies: Decontinentalizing the Study of American Culture
Advance Contract with Duke University Press
INTRODUCTION
Brian Russell Roberts and Michelle Ann Stephens
Archipelagic American Studies and the Archipelagic Americas
1. THEORIES AND METHODS FOR AN ARCHIPELAGIC AMERICAN STUDIES
Elaine Stratford
Imagining the Archipelago
Lanny Thompson
Heuristic Geographies: Areas and Landscapes, Islands and Archipelagos
2. ARCHIPELAGIC MAPPINGS AND META-GEOGRAPHIES
Craig Santos Perez
Guam and Archipelagic American Studies
Etsuko Taketani
The Archipelagic Black Global Imaginary: Walter White’s Pacific Island Hopping
Susan Gillman
It Takes and Archipelago
3. EMPIRES AND ARCHIPELAGOES
Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel
Colonial Archipelagoes: Reimagining Colonial Caribbean Studies
Joseph Keith
Invisible Islands: Remapping the Trans-Pacific Archipelago of US Empire in Carlos
Bulosan’s America Is in the Heart
Nicole Waligora-Davis
“Myth of the Continents”: American Vulnerability and Rum & Coca-Cola—US–Caribbean
Relations, 1940–1967
4. ISLANDS OF RESISTANCE
John Carlos Rowe
“Shades of Paradise”: Craig Santos Perez’s Trans-Pacific Voyages
Cherene Sherrard-Johnson
Insubordinate Islands and Coastal Chaos: Pauline Hopkins’s Literary Land/Seascapes
Brandy Nālani McDougall
“We Are Not American”: Competing Rhetorical Archipelagoes in Hawai’i
5. ECOLOGIES OF RELATION
Hsinya Huang
Island Ecologies, Island Aesthetics: Narrating Pacific Heartbeat
Ramón E. Soto-Crespo
Archipelagic Trash: Despised Forms in the Cultural History of the Americas
Alice Te Punga Somerville
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch as Metaphor: The (American) Pacific You Can’t See
6. INSULAR IMAGINARIES
Matthew Pratt Guterl
The Tropics of Josephine
J. Michael Dash
The Stranger by the Shore: The Archipelization of Caliban in Antillean Theatre
7. MIGRATING IDENTITIES, MOVING BORDERS
Birte Blascheck and Teresia Teaiwa
The Governors General: Caribbean Canadian and Pacific New Zealand Success Stories
Ifeoma Kiddoe Nwankwo
Living the West Indian Dream: Archipelagic Cosmopolitanism and Triangulated Economies of
Desire in Jamaican Popular Culture
Allan Punzalan Isaac
Offshore Identities: Ruptures in the 300-second Average Handling Time
AFTERWORD
Paul Giles