Ocean Passages: Navigating Pacific Islander and Asian American Literatures (Critical Race, Indigeneity, and Relationality)

In haar baanbrekende boek Ocean Passages onderzoekt Erin Suzuki hoe beweging door - en reizen over - de oceaan de constructie van Aziatisch-Amerikaanse en inheemse Pacific-subjectiviteiten bemiddelt in de nasleep van de koloniale conflicten die de moderne transpacific vormden. Ocean Passages bespreekt hoe wetenschappers van de inheemse Stille Oceaan het belang van de oceaan voor inheems activisme, kunst en theorieën over globalisering hebben benadrukt en hoe Aziatisch-Amerikaanse studies een deconstructieve ondervraging van ras zouden kunnen aangaan in gesprek met dit inheems-gecentreerde transnationalisme. De oceaanpassages die Suzuki behandelt, omvatten de Amerikaanse bezetting en militarisering van de oceaanruimte; vluchtelingenpassage en de geschiedenis en ervaringen van volkeren die zijn ontheemd van de eilanden in de Stille Oceaan; trekroutes en het werk dat nodig is om de zee over te steken; en de verschillende manieren waarop oceanen postkoloniaal en koloniaal koloniaal nationalisme informeren. Ze plaatst werk van inheemse Pacifische en Aziatisch-Amerikaanse kunstenaars en auteurs naast elkaar, waaronder James George, Maxine Hong Kingston, Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner, lê thi diếm thúy, Ruth Ozeki en Craig Santos Perez. In Ocean Passages onderzoekt Suzuki welke nieuwe ideeën, allianties en vlampunten kunnen ontstaan ​​bij het vergelijken en contrasteren van passages van Aziatische en Pacifische eilandbewoners over een gedeelde zee. In her pathbreaking book , Ocean Passages, Erin Suzuki explores how movement through—and travel across—the ocean mediates the construction of Asian American and Indigenous Pacific subjectivities in the wake of the colonial conflicts that shaped the modern transpacific. Ocean Passages considers how Indigenous Pacific scholars have emphasized the importance of the ocean to Indigenous activism, art, and theories of globalization and how Asian American studies might engage in a deconstructive interrogation of race in conversation with this Indigenous-centered transnationalism. The ocean passages that Suzuki addresses include the U.S. occupation and militarization of ocean space; refugee passage and the history and experiences of peoples displaced from the Pacific Islands; migratory circuits and the labors required to cross the sea; and the different ways that oceans inform postcolonial and settler colonial nationalisms. She juxtaposes work by Indigenous Pacific and Asian American artists and authors including James George, Maxine Hong Kingston, Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner, lê thi diếm thúy, Ruth Ozeki, and Craig Santos Perez. In Ocean Passages, Suzuki explores what new ideas, alliances, and flashpoints might arise when comparing and contrasting Asian and Pacific Islander passages across a shared sea. In her pathbreaking book__, Ocean Passages,__ Erin Suzuki explores how movement through—and travel across—the ocean mediates the construction of Asian American and Indigenous Pacific subjectivities in the wake of the colonial conflicts that shaped the modern transpacific. __Ocean Passages__ considers how Indigenous Pacific scholars have emphasized the importance of the ocean to Indigenous activism, art, and theories of globalization and how Asian American studies might engage in a deconstructive interrogation of race in conversation with this Indigenous-centered transnationalism. "Ocean Passages explores how ocean space and the diverse experiences of transpacific passage operate as dynamic sites where Asian American and Indigenous Pacific subjectivities have been formed alongside, against, and in alliance with one another"-- Provided by publisher Contents 8 Acknowledgments 10 Introduction 16 1. Militarized Passages 38 2. Refugee Passages 72 3. Commercial Passages 106 4. Embodied Passages 142 5. Virtual Passages 176 Conclusion 212 Notes 218 Works Cited 240 Index 258 Comparing and contrasting the diverse experiences of Asian and Pacific Islander subjectivities across a shared sea