... In counterpoint to long-running perceptions of the United States and the Americas as continental spaces, this introduction describes a centuries-long and spatially splayed space termed the archipelagic Americas , composed of islands, island chains, and island-continent relations. The project...

...Theories and Methods for an Archipelagic American Studies This chapter examines the heuristics of various geographical metaphors that shape theoretical and empirical analyses, especially in the social sciences and humanities. Some of the most important geographical metaphors have been...

...Archipelagic Mappings and Meta-Geographies Among works depicting coastal and insular United States in the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC is Poppies (Isles of Shoals) , painted by Childe Hassam in 1891. Poppies is a quiet reminder that America is an archipelago—a revelation...

... This essay argues that the “archipelagic” turn in American studies is a productive way to more fully engage Guam and the emergent field of Guam studies. It embodies an archipelagic structure by viewing Guam as a complex space contested by various populations and interests vying...

... by critical inquiry into such paradigm shifts. By examining the air travels of Walter White, writer and executive secretary of the NAACP, who navigated this changing spatial context, it seeks to advance “the archipelagic black global imaginary” produced by White as the air age shaped not only the conduct...

... aligned with Oceania. Through multiple kinds of Pacific connections and commonalities among North America, Aotearoa, and Austronesian Taiwan, this chapter opens up Pacific pathways and islands as locations of archipelagic American Studies. Bill Reid Robert Sullivan Syaman Rapongan transpacific...

... the circulation of archipelagic trash in the circum-Atlantic region, the essay traces the boom in representations of white trash subjectivities in postwar Caribbean plantation family sagas, from their incipient manifestation in the early works of Edgar Mittelholzer to their mutation in the burgeoning popular...

... divinely determined evidence of their inferiority. The US-Anglophone Caribbean relationship is also shaped by both the archipelago and the continental nation’s relationship with another island—England. Attending to this archipelagic triangulation facilitates increased awareness of Anglophone Caribbean...

... This afterword considers the contribution of the essays in Archipelagic American Studies toward a definition of the archipelagic imaginary. It addresses questions of representation, suggesting that the relational flows of the archipelago become a corollary to the idea of multidirectional...

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... archipelagic thinking geography Édouard Glissant ...

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