Departing from conventional narratives of the United States and the Americas as fundamentally continental spaces, the contributors to Archipelagic American Studies theorize America as constituted by and accountable to a global assemblage of interconnected islands, archipelagos, shorelines, continents, seas, and oceans.

Editors' Acknowledgments  xi Introduction. Archipelagic American Studies: Decontinentalizing the Study of American Culture / Brian Russell Roberts and Michelle Ann Stephens  1 Part I. Theories and Methods for an Archipelagic American Studies 1. Heurestic Geographies: Territories and Areas, Islands and Archipelagoes / Lanny Thompson  57 2. Imagining the Archipelago / Elaine Stratford  74 Part II. Archipelagic Mappings and Meta-Geographies 3. Guam and Archipelagic Black Global Imaginary / Craig Santos Perez / 97 4. The Archipelagic Black Global Imaginary: Walter White's Pacific Island Hopping / Etsuko Taketani  113 5. It Takes an Archipelago to Compare Otherwise / Susan Gillman  133 Part III. Empires and Archipelagoes 6. Colonial and Mexican Archipelagoes: Remiagining Colonial Caribbean Studies / Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel  155 7. Invisible Islands: Remapping the Transpacific Archipelago of US Empire in Carlos Bulosan's America Is in the Heart / Joseph Keith  174 8. "Myth of the Continents": American Vulnerabilities and "Rum and Colca-Cola" / Nicole A. Waligora-Davis  191 Part IV. Islands of Resistance 9. "Shades of Paradise": Craig Santos Perez's Transpacific Voyages / John Carlos Rowe  213 10. Insubordinate Islands and Coastal Chaos: Pauline Hopkins's Literary Land/Seascapes / Cherene Serrard-Johnson  232 11. "We Are Not Americans": Competing Rhetorical Archipelagoes in Hawai'i / Brandy N¿lani McDougall 259 Part V. Ecologies of Relation 12. Performing Archipelagic Identities in Bill Reid, Robert Sullivan, and Syaman Rapongan / Hsinya Huang  281 13. Archipelagic Trash: Despised Forms in the Cultural History of the Americas / Ramón E. Soto-Crespo  302 14. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch as Metaphor: The (American) Pacific You Can't See / Alice Te Punga Somerville  320 Part VI. Insular Imaginaries 15. The Tropics of Josephine: Space, Time, and Hybrid Movements / Matthew Pratt Guterl  341 16. The Stranger by the Shore: The Archipelization of Caliban in Antillean Theatre / J. Michael Dash  356 Part VII. Migrating Identities, Moving Borders 17. The Governors-General: Caribbean Canadian and Pacific New Zealand Success Stories / Birte Blascheck and Teresia Teaiwa  373 18. Living the West Indian Dream: Archipelagic Cosmopolitanism and Triangulated Economies of Desire in Jamaican Popular Culture / Ifeoma Kiddoe Nwankwo  390 19. Offshore Identities: Ruptures in the 300-Second Average Handling Time / Allan Punzalan Isaac  411 Afterword. The Archipelagic Accretion / Paul Giles Selected Bibliography  437 Contributors  453 Index