Table of Contents

Introduction: Asia/Pacific as Space of Cultural Production / Rob Wilson and Arif Dirlik 1
Mappings
Foundations of the American Image of the Pacific / M. Consuelo León 17
Pacific Rim Discourse: The U.S. Global Imaginary in the Late Cold War Years / Christopher L. Connery 30
Chemical Weapons Discourse in the "South Pacific" / William A. Callahan and Steve Olive 57
Shrinking the Pacific / Lawson Fusao Inada 80
Memory / Lawson Fusao Inada 82
Turning It Over / Lawson Fusao Inada 84
Our Sea of Islands / Epeli Hau'ofa 86
Movements
Sacred Sites and the City: Urban Aboriginality, Ambivalence, and Modernity / John Fielder 101
From the Politics of Identity to an Alternative Cultural Politics: On Taiwan Primoridal Inhabitants' A-systemic Movement / Chiu Yen Liang (Fred) 120
Pasts and Futures
Cultural Construction and Native Nationalism: Report from the Hawaiin Front / Jeffrey Tobin 147
Hawai'i / Haunani-Kay Trask 170
Da Mainland to Me / Joseph P. Balaz 175
Childhood as Fiction / Subramani 177
Three Poems for Kenzaburo Oe / Albert Wendt 204
Reading toward the Indigenous Pacific: Patricia Grace's Potiki, a Case Study / Miriam Fuchs 206
The Last Frontier: Memories of the Postcolonial Future in Keri Hulme's the bone people / Chris Bongie 226
The 747 Poem / Terese Svoboda 250
The Little Grass Shack / Terese Svoboda 251
Flows
The Possibility of Imagination in These Islands / Tsushima Yuko (Translated by Geraldine Harcourt; Introduction by Masao Miyoshi) 255
Imaginings in the Empires of the Sun: Japanese Mass Culture in Asia / Leo Ching 262
The Hong Kong Immigrant and the Urban Landscape: Shaping the Transnational Cosmopolitanism in the Era of Pacific Rim Capital / Katharyne Mitchell 284
Postmodernism and American Cultural Difference: Dispatches, Mystery Train, and The Art of Japanese Management / Thomas Carmichael 311
America's Hiroshima, Hiroshima's America / Peter Schwenger and John Whittier Treat 324
The Pulling of Olap's Canoe / Theophil Saret Rueney, translator 345
Contributors 351
Index 355

About the Author

Rob Wilson is Professor of Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz and the author of Reimagining the American Pacific.

Arif Dirlik is Professor of History at Duke University and the editor of What Is in a Rim?