Shifting Grounds

Cultural Tectonics along the Pacific Rim. Edited by Jutta Ernst und Brigitte Johanna Glaser. While the notion of the "Pacific Rim" has seeped from the realms of politics, business, and trade into cultural studies, scholars increasingly challenge its logic of linkage along borders and develop alternative conceptions favouring, for instance, an archipelagic approach. In this volume, 15 essays contribute to the current debate by offering expert geohistorical and theoretical discussions plus in-depth analyses of cultural products including photography, film, TV, music, and literature. Contents: Jutta Ernst/Brigitte Johanna Glaser: Introduction. - I. New Theoretical Approaches to the Pacific: Rob Wilson: Becoming Oceania. Ecopoetics and the Planetary Pacific Rim, Or 'Walking on water wasn't built in a day'. - II. Geographical and Historical Contexts: Werner Kreisel: Current Problems in the Pacific Island World. The Contribution of Geography with Special Focus on German-Language Research. - Otto Heim: Beyond the Rim? Redrawing Boundaries in Pacific Theatre. - III. City of Glass: Glenn Deer: Pacific Spectacles. Vancouver and the Social Production of the "View Imperative". - Susan Ingram: Vancouver Matters. Softening the Glass of Eco-Metro-politanism on the Post-Pacific Rim. - IV. The Reel Pacific: Karin Beeler: Representing the Pacific. Adaptation in Ang Lee's Film "Life of Pi". - Stankomir Nicieja: Beyond the East-West Dichotomy. Miss Kicki and Ghosted, A Case Study in Contemporary Taiwanese Cinema. - Stan Beeler: Cascadia in Film and Television: Bioregionalism and Its Media Reflection. Justyna Poray-Wybranowska: Regional Histories, Transnational Concerns: Mapping Cultural Topography through Guillermo del Toro's "Pacific Rim". V. The Documentary Pacific: Kirsten Twelbeck: Rites of Renewal. Jack London's Transpacific Journeys. - Jeffrey Geiger: Cinematic Gestures. Flows and Disruptions on the Yankee Voyage, 1936-1938. - VI. Island Societies and Globality: Thomas Schwarz: Samoa's 'Affective Value': Rhetorical Strategies in German Pacificism. - Nicole Poppenhagen: "Claiming the Pacific". Family Negotiations and (Trans)Pacific Histories in Pam Chun's "The Money Dragon". - Iris-Aya Laemmerhirt: "We Will Never Be Americans!" Hip-Hop and Hawaiian Resistance. - Angela Rolling: From Samoa to Terra A. Navigating Academic Fractures (and writing what is more or less unintentionally left out). 280 Seiten mit 12 Farb- und 26 s/w-Abb., gebunden (Anglistische Forschungen; Band 461/Universitätsverlag Winter 2020) leichte Lagerspuren/near mint

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