Pacific Literatures as World Literature

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"This groundbreaking volume remaps the Pacific as a site where poets, scholars, and activists foreground oceanic perspectives to reorient the way we think about literature, culture, colonialism, and relations among species. In this book, scholars based in North America, Japan, Taiwan, Korea, Europe, Hawai'i, and Guahan/Guam and decenter continental and nation-based poetics. The contributors to draw our attention to indigenous communities connected across space and time; to legacies of colonization, imperial dominance, and resistance; and to cultures in which mutual dependence and reciprocity play a central role. At a time when climate change forces all of us to rethink the nature of our connections to one another, this volume charts some ways of understanding what those connection have meant over time. It is a book that will be of great importance to literary studies, ecological studies, indigenous studies, and transnational American studies." * Shelley Fisher Fishkin, Joseph S. Atha Professor in Humanities, Stanford University, USA * "The myriad Pacifics in this volume are complexly layered, distinct, flowing into one another. They are perpetually rebecoming with the literatures and epistemologies the volume showcases. What is a world when confronted with a universe? In answer, this book offers an exquisite set of navigations through a world of archipelagoes and an archipelago of worlds." * Brian Russell Roberts, Professor of English, Brigham Young University, USA, and author of Borderwaters: Amid the Archipelagic States of America (2021) * "In this evocative collection, the Pacific is not a rim of continental landmasses and imperial ambitions, but an indigenous sea of islands and ecologies that has given us a briny tide of literary riches. Here, writers seek to undo colonial pasts and to elevate a watery world of creatures, waves, and sky. Hsinya Huang, Chia-hua Lin and their contributors demonstrate that Pacific literatures are indeed world literatures, oceanic words that stake the most urgent claims on our planetary future." * Philip Deloria, Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History, Harvard University, USA *