Pacific insularity : imaginary geography of insular spaces in the Pacific

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Pacific insularity : imaginary geography of insular spaces in the Pacific

edited by Michael Heitkemper-Yates and Thomas Schwarz

Rikkyo University Press , Maruzen-Yushodo [distributor], c2021

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Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents of Works

  • Satire across a "sea of islands". Japan and the pacific in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's travels / Laurence Williams
  • Poetics of the sea. Japanese imaginations of the south ocean / Toshiko Ellis
  • The Island of Awaji as a Heterotopia. Jun'ichirō Tanizaki's Novel Some Prefer Nettles / Christopher Schelletter
  • The spatial ambiguity of the island. Marion Poschmann's pine islands / Katrin Dautel
  • Arrival. A topos in travel-writing on Tahiti / Roman Lach
  • Elegiac travels to New Cythera. Representations of Otaheiti in 18th century German poetry / Arne Klawitter
  • Between dream and nightmare. The Austrian deconstruction of the myth of pacific islands / Valentina Serra
  • Remembering the Sokehs rebellion. Resistance against colonial power in Micronesia / Thomas Schwarz
  • Unripe passion fruit and memory laundering? The thwarted potential of Sugimura Mitsuko's regiman no hi / Ryota Nishino
  • The Baining massacre. The Gazelle peninsula under German and Japanese rule / Miyuki Soejima
  • From Plato To pacificism. Challenging the construction of islands in western thought / Theodore Bonnah
  • Imagining Gilles Deleuze's "Desert Islands". Insular mythology from Jean Giraudoux to Robert Coover / Michael Heitkemper-Yates
  • On oceanic identity. Epeli Hau‘ofa's "project new Oceania" / Andreas Michel
  • (Re)storying a sea of islands on dry land. Fāgogo and the poetics of oceanic space in Albert Wendt's leaves of the Banyan tree / Ashalyna Noa and Johannes Riquet
  • Global insularities. Insular spaces of tourism and migration / Kathrin Schödel

Description and Table of Contents

Description

アジア太平洋地域をめぐる多くの対立的言説—政治、文学、歴史、批評。批評的かつ理論的、哲学的なアプローチをもつ本書の射程は、アジア太平洋の研究に関わる学者に、調査と想像力が織りなす多彩な研究のマトリックスを提供しています。

Table of Contents

  • The Pacific World of the Japanese Archipelago(Satire Across a “Sea of Islands”.Japan and the Pacific in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels;Poetics of the Sea.Japanese Imaginations of the South Ocean;The Island of Awaji as a Heterotopia.Jun’ichiro Tanizaki’s Novel Some Prefer Nettles ほか)
  • Exoticist and Colonial Imaginations of Pacific Islands(Arrival.A Topos in Travel‐Writing on Tahiti;Elegiac Travels to New Cythera.Representations of Otaheiti in 18th Century German Poetry;Between Dream and Nightmare.The Austrian Deconstruction of the Myth of Pacific Islands ほか)
  • Desertedness and Interconnectivity of Pacific Insularity(From Plato To Pacificism.Challenging the Construction of Islands in Western Thought;Imagining Gilles Deleuze’s “Desert Islands”.Insular Mythology from Jean Giraudoux to Robert Coover;On Oceanic Identity.Epeli Hau‘ofa’s “Project New Oceania” ほか)

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Details

  • NCID
    BC06816471
  • ISBN
    • 9784901988384
  • Country Code
    ja
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Tokyo,[Tokyo]
  • Pages/Volumes
    296 p.
  • Size
    22 cm
  • Classification
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