Shifting Grounds

Cultural Tectonics along the Pacific Rim. Edited by Jutta Ernst and Brigitte Johanna Glaser.

Geological in origin, 'Pacific Rim' refers to a zone of high tectonic stresses along the margins of the Pacific Ocean, thus conceptually tying together the Americas, the islands of the South Pacific, Australia and New Zealand as well as Southeast and Northeast Asia. The phrase gained wider currency in the 1970s when the political and economic situation of the United States necessitated a strategic reorientation in terms of spatial imaginaries and, concomitantly, the coinage of a new transnational discourse. While the notion of the Pacific Rim has seeped from the realms of politics, business, and trade into cultural studies, scholars increasingly challenge its logic of linkage along borders and develop alternative conceptions favouring, for instance, an archipelagic approach. The volume contributes to the current debate by offering expert geohistorical and theoretical discussions plus in-depth analyses of cultural products including photography, film, TV, music, and literature. - Contents: I. New Theoretical Approaches to the Pacific: Rob Wilson: Becoming Oceania. Ecopoetics and the Planetary Pacific Rim, Or 'Walking on water wasn't built in a day'. - II. Geographical and Historical Contexts: Werner Kreisel: Current Problems in the Pacific Island World. The Contribution of Geography with Special Focus on German-Language Research. - Otto Heim: Beyond the Rim? Redrawing Boundaries in Pacific Theatre. - III. City of Glass: Glenn Deer: Pacific Spectacles. Vancouver and the Social Production of the "View Imperative". - Susan Ingram: Vancouver Matters. Softening the Glass of Eco-Metropolitanism on the Post-Pacific Rim. - IV. The Reel Pacific: Karin Beeler: Representing the Pacific. Adaptation in Ang Lee's Film "Life of Pi". - Stankomir Nicieja: Beyond the East-West Dichotomy. "Miss Kicki" and "Ghosted", A Case Study in Contemporary Taiwanese Cinema. - Stan Beeler: Cascadia in Film and Television. Bioregionalism and Its Media Reflection. - Justyna Poray-Wybranowska: Regional Histories, Transnational Concerns. Mapping Cultural Topography through Guillermo del Toro's "Pacific Rim". - V. The Documentary Pacific: Kirsten Twelbeck: Rites of Renewal. Jack London's Transpacific Journeys. - Jeffrey Geiger: Cinematic Gestures. Flows and Disruptions on the Yankee Voyage, 1936-1938. - VI. Island Societies and Globality: Thomas Schwarz: Samoa's 'Affective Value'. Rhetorical Strategies in German Pacificism. - Nicole Poppenhagen: 'Claiming the Pacific'. Family Negotiations and (Trans)Pacific Histories in Pam Chun's "The Money Dragon". - Iris-Aya Laemmerhirt: "We Will Never Be Americans!" Hip-Hop and Hawaiian Resistance. - Angela Rolling: From Samoa to Terra A. Navigating Academic Fractures (and writing what is more or less unintentionally left out). - 280 Seiten mit 12 Farb- und 26 s/w-Abb., gebunden (Anglistische Forschungen; Vol. 461/Universitätsverlag Winter 2020) leichte Lagerspuren/near mint