About the Book: Trans-Pacific Cultural Studies
In the wake of 9/11 terrorist attacks and the Iraq war, a number of scholars
and critics started reconfiguring the discourse of globalism by introducing such
ideas as planetarity (Gayatri spivak, 2003), hemispheric imagination (Gretchen
Murphy, 2005), deep time (Wai chee dimock, 2008), transpacific imagination
(yunte Huang, 2008), deep maps (Shelley Fisher Fishkin, 2011)and
deterritorialization (Paul Giles, 2011). This title seeks to present
perspectives on such ideas as well as the traditional concepts of transnational
and transnational cultural expression. It introduces transatlantic, transpacific
and even global viewpoints to provide a comprehensive view of cultural exchanges
and growth across the Pacific.
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