Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Transpacific as a Critical Space

Part I: History: And the Views from the Shores

1. Mark Twain: Letters from Hawaii

2. Henry Adams: In Japan and the South Seas

3. Liang Qichao: A Journey to the New Continent

Part II: Literature: Moby-Dick in the Pacific

4. Collecting in the Pacific

5. Ahab's Collectibles: The White Whale and the Yellow Tigers

6. Ishmael, a Pacific Historian

7. Queequeg, the Pacific Man

8. Melville's Pacific Becoming: Fancy, Fate, Finis

Part III: Counterpoetics: Islands, Legends, Maps

9. The Poetics of Error: Angel Island

10. Legends from Camp: Lawson Fusao Inada

11. Mapping Histories: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha

Conclusion: Between History and Literature--A Poetics of Acknowledgment

Notes

Index

Yunte Huang is Professor of English at University of California, Santa Barbara and author of Transpacific Displacement.