...Christopher B. Patterson Abstract This article conceives of a transpacific brownness in relation to other forms of brown to produce a storied manifest for brown theory. By activating “the brown transpacific” as an epistemological paradigm that navigates the disciplinary logics of colonial...

...Naoki Sakai The transpacific relationship between the United States and Japan has been analyzed, discussed, and diagnosed ever since the U.S. occupation of Japan. Despite the variety and wealth of scholarship on this topic, however, the dearth of comparative studies with respect to fascistic...

...Yi-Ting Chang Abstract In transpacific and Asian/American studies, islands often gain decolonial meaning via their explicit ties to US and Japanese military imperialisms. This article inquires how islands express the decolonial beyond US‐centric anti‐imperial critique, and how they complicate...

... Nguyen is an assistant professor at University of California, Fullerton. Christopher B. Patterson is an assistant professor in the Social Justice Institute at the University of British Columbia. He researches transpacific discourses of literature, video games, and new media through the lens...

... are published in American Quarterly, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, Amerasian Journal, Cultural Studies, and Chinese America: History and Perspectives. His book Transpacific Articulations: Study Abroad and the Remaking of Asian America is forthcoming...

...-title PhD in English and women's, gender, and sexuality studies from the Pennsylvania State University. She writes about women-of-color feminism, decolonial thought, pedagogy, and transpacific Asian/American literature. Eun Ah Cho is a lecturer in the Department of Korean Studies at the University...

... Palimpsests of Nation and Diaspora (2016), and Pas- sionate Attachments to Area Studies and Asian American Studies, coauthored with Laurie J. Sears, in Transpacific Studies (2015). Carlo Bonura is a comparative political theorist in the Department of Politics and Interna- tional Studies at SOAS, University...

...” (“On America”) . In Kakujidai no sōzōryoku (The Power of Imagination in the Nuclear Age) . Tokyo : Shinchō . Onishi Yuichiro . 2013 . Transpacific Antiracism: Afro-Asian Solidarity in Twentieth-Century Black America, Japan, and Okinawa . New York : New York University Press . Russell...

.... Consequently, the article resituates readers’ focus from “north/south” to the broad east-to-west sweep of the “brown transpacific,” which, additionally, “decenters the United States as the figurative space where brownness is most relevant to see other forms of brownness in relation to nonwhite (but often...

... with the Compound Eyes ” calls for a fundamental rethinking of the epistemological framework of transpacific and Asian/American studies by shifting our inquiries from an intercontinental and nation-state–centered perspective to “archipelagic optics” that foreground “noninnocent multiplicity, decontinental seeing...

... is significantly structured by US strategic disavowals, South Korean denials of its complicity with the United States, as well as a transpacific masculinist epistemology. This requires a feminist task that asks us to inhabit a nonlin- ear temporality...

... and Sexuality in the Chinese Cultural Revolution, 1966–1979 . Leiden, the Netherlands : Brill . Rothwell Matthew D. 2013 . Transpacific Revolutionaries: The Chinese Revolution in Latin American . New York : Routledge . Said Edward W. 1978 . Orientalism . New York : Vintage Books...

... a composite portrait of human suffering under Asian “totalitarianism” and, in some instances, explicit endorsement of Western liberal ideals and free-­market capitalism, these transpacific mem- oirs variously follow the blueprint of earlier anti...

... , October 16 . https://health.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2019/10/16/2019101601399.html . Lee S. Heijin . 2018 . “ Gender, Beauty, and Plastic Surgery: Towards a Transpacific Korean/American Studies .” In A Companion to Korean American Studies , edited by Miyung Joo Rachael and Lee...

..., including sections edited out by Pound, see Yunte Huang, Transpacific Displacement: Intertextual Travel in Twentieth-Century American Literature (Berkeley: Uni- versity of California Press, 2002), 20. 15 Rob Wagner, “Two Chinese Girls...

...: Transpacific, 2004). 15 It is important to note one way in which antinationalist discourse becomes a very effective tool to deprive the colonized ethnic group of any affirmation of its identity. Once the people of an ethnic group build...

...- ican communities threatens the very basis of Asian American identity, one rooted in a fragile, pan-ethnic, and “community-based” coalition. Dirlik notes that increased attention to transpacific ties has created a contradiction between...

... : 347 – 49 . Onishi Yuichiro . 2013 . Transpacific Antiracism: Afro-Asian Solidarity in Twentieth-Century Black America, Japan, and Okinawa . New York : New York University Press . Russell John G. 1991 . “ Race and Reflexivity: The Black Other in Contemporary Japanese Mass...

...: Transpacific Critique of American Justice and Japanese War Crimes . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Miri Yū . 1998a . “Kamen no kuni” (“Land of Masks”) . In Kamen no Kuni , 9 – 26 . Tokyo : Shinchōsha . Miri Yū . 1998b . “‘Jinken’ ni jubaku sareta ‘tōmeina kazoku...

... interspersed in the film index transpacific circuits and crossings. Govern- ment documents that circulated in 1902 make it clear that Filipino bodies on display in St. Louis would help to convey “the possibility of good invest- ments and successful...