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... Racial Castration: Managing Masculinity in Asian America. By David L. Eng. Dur- ham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2001. viii, 290 pp. Cloth, $54.95; paper, $18.95. Reimagining the American Pacific: From ‘‘South Pacific’’ to Bamboo Ridge...

...: Nineteenth-Century Sea Narratives and American Identity . By Robin Miskolcze. Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Press. 2008. xxii, 220 pp. $45.00. “Whole Oceans Away”: Melville and the Pacific . Ed. Jill Barnum, Wyn Kelley, and Christopher Sten. Kent, Ohio: Kent State Univ. Press. 2007. xxi, 350 pp. $65.00...

...Sean Metzger A Floating Chinaman: Fantasy and Failure across the Pacific . By Hua Hsu . Cambridge, MA : Harvard Univ. Press . 2016 . 276 pp. Cloth, $29.95 . Transpacific Community: America, China, and the Rise and Fall of a Cultural Network . By Richard Jean So . New...

... into practices and ideologies that are otherwise difficult to recover. George reveals that the seemingly petty conflicts within one Pacific Northwestern “show town” are surprisingly representative; Chinn analyzes how early US dramas resonate with the frustrations, aspirations, and solidarity of white workingmen...

... “imperialism’s racial justice” is extremely difficult to accomplish. Clearly working to build a “Black Pacific” that might complement Paul Gilroy’s The Black Atlantic (1993), he accepts the region itself as an elaborate fabrication of US and Japanese imperial interests in the modern period. Indeed, the “Black...

... of Modernism . By Walsh Rebecca . Gainesville : Univ. Press of Florida . 2015 . viii, 201 pp . $74.95 . The Black Pacific Narrative: Geographic Imaginings of Race and Empire between the World Wars . By Taketani Etsuko . Lebanon, NH : Dartmouth College Press . 2014 . 266 pp. Paper...

... Pacific Northwest, Western ornithology’s discomfort with the raven’s maritime presence and stringent relegation of the bird to barren land becomes vividly apparent. In Haida, Tlingit, and other Northwest Pacific Indigenous traditions, the raven operates through an intertidal ecology to serve a prominent...

...Amber P. Hodge Abstract This essay seeks to expand the scope of both US southern and Pacific Islander American studies by examining The Descendants (2007) in conversation with William Faulkner’s southern gothic mainstay As I Lay Dying (1930). The essay positions Hemmings’s novel in a gothic...

...— The Routledge Companion to Asian American and Pacific Islander Literature (Lee 2014 ), Keywords for Asian American Studies (Schlund-Vials, Vo, and Wong 2015 ), The Cambridge Companion to Asian American Literature (Parikh and Kim 2015 ), and The Cambridge History of Asian American Literature (Srikanth and Song...

...) What other writer [than Mark Twain] at this early date better glimpsed the role of America in Asia and in the Pacific, ocean of the future?—A. Grove Day, ‘‘Innocent Abroad...

... across national borders to ask how U.S. racial categories were rearranged through contact with the realm of foreign empire.5 But despite this wider lens, Jacobson’s account is limited by its concep- tualization of Pacific imperialism through the model of an - expand ing frontier...

... literary criticism that helped shape Hawthorne’s reputation and legacy in Europe. Reading across the Pacific: Australia–United States Intellectual Histories. Ed. Robert Dixon and Nicholas Birns. Sydney, Australia: Sydney Univ. Press. 2010. xxi, 372 pp. Paper, $40.00. The transnational turn...

... and Reynolds. In Melville’s two auto- biographical narratives of travel in the Pacific, Typee (1846) and Omoo (1847), he had represented Pacific island men as attractive but out of reach, natives to the places where he was a stranger and strangers to the places where he was a native.3 In The New Zealanders...

.... Shewry’s book, an analysis of the contemporary literature of the South Pacific, also balances risk and hope, both of which she grounds in a context of past and present colonialism and environmental depredation. Like Heise, Shewry aims to intervene in narratives of decline, in her case by emphasizing texts...

... of Executive Order 9066 by US President Franklin D. Roosevelt. In 1942, this order mobilized the mass dispossession and detainment of Japanese and Japanese American citizens along the Pacific coast, ten weeks after Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor. On this Day of Remembrance, President Joseph R. Biden ( 2022...

... York : Routledge . Dower John . 1986 . War without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War . New York : Pantheon Books . Fagan Brian . 1987 . The Great Journey—The Peopling of Ancient America . London : Thames and Hudson . García Mario . 1989 . Mexican Americans...

..., 276 pp. Cloth, $ 90.00 ; paper, $ 27.95 ; e-book, $ 19.99 . In some ways, McKevitt’s book is a counterhistory, chronicling how the defeated outplayed the victor in his own game, thereby forming a new age. More than Qian, McKevitt drives home the point that as America crosses the Pacific, Asia...

...Figure 1 Perham Wilhelm Nahl’s lithograph The Thirteenth Labor of Hercules . Created for the Panama–Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, 1915, this poster was selected as the exposition’s official image. 100 Years: Panama–Pacific International Exposition 1915–2015 (website) ...