Shifting grounds : cultural tectonics along the Pacific Rim

Shifting grounds : cultural tectonics along the Pacific Rim /

"Geological in origin, 'Pacific Rim' refers to a zone of high tectonic stresses along the margins of the Pacific Ocean, thus conceptually tying together the Americas, the islands of the South Pacific, Australia and New Zealand as well as Southeast and Northeast Asia. The term gained w...

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Other Authors: Ernst, Jutta (Editor), Glaser, Brigitte (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Heidelberg : Universitätsverlag Winter, [2020]
Series:Anglistische Forschungen Heft 461.
Subjects:
Cultural geography > Pacific Area.
Regionalism > Pacific Area
Boundaries
Regionalism
Pacific Area > Boundaries.
Pacific Area > Social life and customs.
Pacific Area
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Jutt Ernst and Brigitte Johanna Glaser
  • New theoretical approaches to the Pacific. Becoming Oceania: ecopoetics and the planetary Pacific Rim, or 'Walking on water wasn't built in a day' / Rob Wilson
  • Geographical and historical contexts. Current problems in the Pacific Island World: the contribution of geography with special focus on German-language research / Werner Kreisel
  • Beyond the Rim? Redrawing boundaries in Pacific theatre / Otto Heim
  • City of glass. Pacific spectacles: Vancouver and the social production of the "View imperative" / Glenn Deer
  • Vancouver matters: softening the glass of eco-metropolitanism on the post-Pacific Rim / Susan Ingram
  • The reel Pacific. Representing the Pacific: adaptation in Ang Lee's Film Life of Pi / Karin Beeler
  • Beyind the east-west dichotomy: Miss Kicki and Ghosted - a case study in contemporary Taiwanese cinema / Stankomir Nicieja
  • Cascadia in film and television: bioregionalism and its media reflection / Stan Beeler
  • Regional histories, transnational concerns: mapping cultural topography through Guillermo del Toro's Pacific Rim / Justyna Poray-Wybranowska
  • The documenatary Pacific. Rites of renewal: Jack London's transpacific journeys / Kirsten Twelbeck
  • Cinematic gestures: flows and disruptions on the Yankee voyage, 1936-1938 / Jeffrey Geiger
  • Island societies and globality. Samoa's 'affective value': rhetorical strategies in German pacificism / Thomas Schwarz
  • "Claiming the Pacific": family negotiations and (trans)Pacific histories in Pam Chun's The Money Dragon / Nicole Poppenhagen
  • "We will never be Americans!" hip-hop and Hawaiian resistance / Iris-Ayua Laemmerhirt
  • From Samoa to Terra A: navigating academic fractures (and writing what is more or less unintentionally left out) / Angela Kölling
  • Contributors.

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