Oceanic Becoming

Auteur

Rob Wilson is Professor of Literature, Creative Writing, and Cultural Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the author of, among other books, Reimagining the American Pacific: From South Pacific to Bamboo Ridge and Beyond, also published by Duke University Press, and Be Always Converting, Be Always Converted: An American Poetics.

Texte du rabat

Outline the environmental crises the world’s oceans currently face, Rob Wilson theorizes a practice of “worlding,” which would build upon existing social ties to the ocean that would provide the basis for new forms of belonging and ecological futures.

Contenu

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction. Pacific beneath the Pavements: Toward a Blue Ecopoetics of Oceanic Belonging 1
I. Worlding Pacific Poesis

1. Becoming Oceania: Ecopoetics across the Planetary Pacific Rim, or “Walking on Water Wasn’t Built in a Day” 31
2. Worlding Asia Pacific into Oceania: Concepts, Tactics, and Transfigurations inside the Anthropocene 51
   II. Worlding the Pacific Rim
3. Toward a Blue Ecopoetics: Worlding the Asia Pacific Region into Figurations of Oceania at Monterey Bay 71
4. Migrant Blockages, Global Flows: Worlding San Francisco in a Global-Local and Transoceanic Frame 92
   III. Transpacific Conjugations: Unmaking and Remaking Worlds
5. Under a Golden Gate “Mushroom Cloud”: Urban Space, Ecological Consciousness, and the Pedagogy of Blue Conversion 111
6. Hiroshima Sublime: Trauma, Japan, and the US Asia Pacific Imaginary 126
7. Waking to Global Capitalism and Oceanic Decentering: Reworlding US Poetics across Native Hawai‘i and the Pacific Rim 141
   Epilogue. Transplanted Poesis: Writing Oceania and the World 161
   Notes 167
   Bibliography 197
   Index