Rob Wilson is Professor of Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

• * Introduction: Conversions against Empire "And afterward we were born again, and many times ..." * The Poetics and Politics of Henry 'Opukaha'ia's Conversion *"Henry, Torn from the Stomach" Translating Hawaiian Conversion and Rebirth into Dynamics of Outer-National Becoming *"Be Always Converting, and Be Always Converted" Conversion as Semiotic Becoming, and Metamorphosis into Beatitude * Writing down the Lava Road from Damascus to Kona Counter-Conversion, Pacific Polytheism, and Re-Nativization in Epeli Hau'ofa's Oceania * Regeneration through Violence Multiple Masks of Alter-Becoming in the Japanese/American/African Poet Ai * Becoming Jeremiah inside the U.S. Empire On the Born-Again Refigurations of Bob Dylan * Epilogue: Conversions through Literature Writing Transpacific Becoming from Connecticut to Hawai'i and Asia/Pacific * Notes * Acknowledgments * Index

Energetic and wide-ranging.

Rob Wilson is Professor of Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

• * Introduction: Conversions against Empire "And afterward we were born again, and many times ..." * The Poetics and Politics of Henry 'Opukaha'ia's Conversion *"Henry, Torn from the Stomach" Translating Hawaiian Conversion and Rebirth into Dynamics of Outer-National Becoming *"Be Always Converting, and Be Always Converted" Conversion as Semiotic Becoming, and Metamorphosis into Beatitude * Writing down the Lava Road from Damascus to Kona Counter-Conversion, Pacific Polytheism, and Re-Nativization in Epeli Hau'ofa's Oceania * Regeneration through Violence Multiple Masks of Alter-Becoming in the Japanese/American/African Poet Ai * Becoming Jeremiah inside the U.S. Empire On the Born-Again Refigurations of Bob Dylan * Epilogue: Conversions through Literature Writing Transpacific Becoming from Connecticut to Hawai'i and Asia/Pacific * Notes * Acknowledgments * Index

Energetic and wide-ranging.

Rob Wilson is Professor of Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

• * Introduction: Conversions against Empire "And afterward we were born again, and many times ..." * The Poetics and Politics of Henry 'Opukaha'ia's Conversion *"Henry, Torn from the Stomach" Translating Hawaiian Conversion and Rebirth into Dynamics of Outer-National Becoming *"Be Always Converting, and Be Always Converted" Conversion as Semiotic Becoming, and Metamorphosis into Beatitude * Writing down the Lava Road from Damascus to Kona Counter-Conversion, Pacific Polytheism, and Re-Nativization in Epeli Hau'ofa's Oceania * Regeneration through Violence Multiple Masks of Alter-Becoming in the Japanese/American/African Poet Ai * Becoming Jeremiah inside the U.S. Empire On the Born-Again Refigurations of Bob Dylan * Epilogue: Conversions through Literature Writing Transpacific Becoming from Connecticut to Hawai'i and Asia/Pacific * Notes * Acknowledgments * Index

Energetic and wide-ranging.