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Oceanic Becoming: The Pacific beneath the Pavements
Oceanic Becoming: The Pacific beneath the Pavements
by Rob Wilson
Duke University Press, 2025 Paper: 978-1-4780-3147-5 | Cloth: 978-1-4780-2826-0
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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