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Tables of Contents for Reimagining the American Pacific
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface Searching for ``the Local'': Hawai`i as Miss Universe?
vii
Introduction ``How Did You Find America?'': On Becoming Asia/Pacific
1
24
Imagining ``Asia-Pacific'' Today: Forgetting Colonialisms in the Magical Waters of the Pacific
25
32
American Trajectories into Hawai`i and the Pacific: Imperial Mappings, Postocolonial Contestations
57
32
Megatrends and Micropolitics in the American Pacific: Tracing Some ``Local Motions'' from Mark Twain to Bamboo Ridge
89
36
Blue Hawai`i: Bamboo Ridge as ``Critical Regionalism''
125
38
Bloody Mary Meets Lois-Ann Yamanaka: Imagining Hawaiian Locality, from South Pacific to Bamboo Ridge and Beyond
163
28
Shark God on Trial: Invoking Chief Ka-lani-o`pu`u in the Local/Indigenous/American Struggle for Place
191
24
Good-Bye Paradise: Theorizing Place, Poetics, and Cultural Production in the American Pacific
215
30
Becoming Global and Local in the U.S. Transnational Imaginary of the Pacific
245
24
Postmodern X: Honolulu Traces
269
16
Coda Part Italian, Part Many Things Else: Creating ``Asia/Pacific'' along a Honolulu-Taipei Line of Flight
273
Index