Rob Wilson is Professor of Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the author of numerous books including American Sublime: The Genealogy of a Poetic Genre and several volumes of poetry, and coeditor of Global/Local: Cultural Production and the Transnational Imaginary and of Asia/Pacific as Space of Cultural Production, both published by Duke University Press.

• Preface: Searching for “the Local”: Hawai‘i as Miss Universe? Introduction: “How Did You Find America?”: On Becoming Asia/Pacific 1. Imagining “Asia-Pacific” Today: Forgetting Colonialisms in the Magical Waters of the Pacific 2. American Trajectories into Hawai‘i and the Pacific: Imperial Mappings, Postcolonial Contestations 3. Megatrends and Micropolitics in the American Pacific: Tracing Some “Local Motions” from Mark Twain to Bamboo Ridge 4. Blue Hawai‘i: Bamboo Ridge as “Critical Regionalism” 5. Bloody Mary Meets Lois-Ann Yamanaka: Imagining Hawaiian Locality, from South Pacific to Bamboo Ridge and Beyond 6. Shark God on Trial: Invoking Chief Ka-lani-o‘pu‘u in the Local/Indigenous/American Struggle for Place 7. Good-Bye Paradise: Theorizing Place, Poetics, and Cultural Production in the American Pacific 8. Becoming Global and Local in the U.S. Transnational Imaginary of the Pacific 9. Postmodern X: Honolulu Traces Coda: Part Italian, Part Many Things Else: Creating “Asia/Pacific” along a Honolulu-Taipei Line of Flight

“At ease with the interface of the local and global, Rob Wilson flies in and out of Asia and the Pacific. As he rediscovers and redefines the continent, islands and waters, he constantly rereads America. Such a geographic venture is also an exercise in de-disciplining. Circulating freely among literature, culture, economics, politics, history, and media, Wilson’s imagination and judgment are shrewd, sardonic, zestful, zany, and delightful. Reimagining the American Pacific is a thoroughly rewarding book.”-Masao Miyoshi, University of California, San Diego “Lyrical and disruptive, Wilson's book masterfully dismantles multiple and contradictory imaginings of "the Pacific" and recovers the psychic longings, material histories, and politics that have variously produced the modern "Asia Pacific." This book wrenches American studies out of any lingering continent-bound complacency, gives a much needed broader scope to Asian American studies, and discloses crucial blind-spots in Asian area studies. Highly recommended for scholars in all these areas, as well as cultural studies in general.”-David Palumbo-Liu, author of Asian/American: Historical Crossings of a Racial Frontier

Rob Wilson is Professor of Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the author of numerous books including American Sublime: The Genealogy of a Poetic Genre and several volumes of poetry, and coeditor of Global/Local: Cultural Production and the Transnational Imaginary and of Asia/Pacific as Space of Cultural Production, both published by Duke University Press.

• Preface: Searching for “the Local”: Hawai‘i as Miss Universe? Introduction: “How Did You Find America?”: On Becoming Asia/Pacific 1. Imagining “Asia-Pacific” Today: Forgetting Colonialisms in the Magical Waters of the Pacific 2. American Trajectories into Hawai‘i and the Pacific: Imperial Mappings, Postcolonial Contestations 3. Megatrends and Micropolitics in the American Pacific: Tracing Some “Local Motions” from Mark Twain to Bamboo Ridge 4. Blue Hawai‘i: Bamboo Ridge as “Critical Regionalism” 5. Bloody Mary Meets Lois-Ann Yamanaka: Imagining Hawaiian Locality, from South Pacific to Bamboo Ridge and Beyond 6. Shark God on Trial: Invoking Chief Ka-lani-o‘pu‘u in the Local/Indigenous/American Struggle for Place 7. Good-Bye Paradise: Theorizing Place, Poetics, and Cultural Production in the American Pacific 8. Becoming Global and Local in the U.S. Transnational Imaginary of the Pacific 9. Postmodern X: Honolulu Traces Coda: Part Italian, Part Many Things Else: Creating “Asia/Pacific” along a Honolulu-Taipei Line of Flight

“At ease with the interface of the local and global, Rob Wilson flies in and out of Asia and the Pacific. As he rediscovers and redefines the continent, islands and waters, he constantly rereads America. Such a geographic venture is also an exercise in de-disciplining. Circulating freely among literature, culture, economics, politics, history, and media, Wilson’s imagination and judgment are shrewd, sardonic, zestful, zany, and delightful. Reimagining the American Pacific is a thoroughly rewarding book.”-Masao Miyoshi, University of California, San Diego “Lyrical and disruptive, Wilson's book masterfully dismantles multiple and contradictory imaginings of "the Pacific" and recovers the psychic longings, material histories, and politics that have variously produced the modern "Asia Pacific." This book wrenches American studies out of any lingering continent-bound complacency, gives a much needed broader scope to Asian American studies, and discloses crucial blind-spots in Asian area studies. Highly recommended for scholars in all these areas, as well as cultural studies in general.”-David Palumbo-Liu, author of Asian/American: Historical Crossings of a Racial Frontier

Rob Wilson is Professor of Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the author of numerous books including American Sublime: The Genealogy of a Poetic Genre and several volumes of poetry, and coeditor of Global/Local: Cultural Production and the Transnational Imaginary and of Asia/Pacific as Space of Cultural Production, both published by Duke University Press.

• Preface: Searching for “the Local”: Hawai‘i as Miss Universe? Introduction: “How Did You Find America?”: On Becoming Asia/Pacific 1. Imagining “Asia-Pacific” Today: Forgetting Colonialisms in the Magical Waters of the Pacific 2. American Trajectories into Hawai‘i and the Pacific: Imperial Mappings, Postcolonial Contestations 3. Megatrends and Micropolitics in the American Pacific: Tracing Some “Local Motions” from Mark Twain to Bamboo Ridge 4. Blue Hawai‘i: Bamboo Ridge as “Critical Regionalism” 5. Bloody Mary Meets Lois-Ann Yamanaka: Imagining Hawaiian Locality, from South Pacific to Bamboo Ridge and Beyond 6. Shark God on Trial: Invoking Chief Ka-lani-o‘pu‘u in the Local/Indigenous/American Struggle for Place 7. Good-Bye Paradise: Theorizing Place, Poetics, and Cultural Production in the American Pacific 8. Becoming Global and Local in the U.S. Transnational Imaginary of the Pacific 9. Postmodern X: Honolulu Traces Coda: Part Italian, Part Many Things Else: Creating “Asia/Pacific” along a Honolulu-Taipei Line of Flight

“At ease with the interface of the local and global, Rob Wilson flies in and out of Asia and the Pacific. As he rediscovers and redefines the continent, islands and waters, he constantly rereads America. Such a geographic venture is also an exercise in de-disciplining. Circulating freely among literature, culture, economics, politics, history, and media, Wilson’s imagination and judgment are shrewd, sardonic, zestful, zany, and delightful. Reimagining the American Pacific is a thoroughly rewarding book.”-Masao Miyoshi, University of California, San Diego “Lyrical and disruptive, Wilson's book masterfully dismantles multiple and contradictory imaginings of "the Pacific" and recovers the psychic longings, material histories, and politics that have variously produced the modern "Asia Pacific." This book wrenches American studies out of any lingering continent-bound complacency, gives a much needed broader scope to Asian American studies, and discloses crucial blind-spots in Asian area studies. Highly recommended for scholars in all these areas, as well as cultural studies in general.”-David Palumbo-Liu, author of Asian/American: Historical Crossings of a Racial Frontier