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