- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Transpacific as a Critical Space
- 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
- 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
- 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


Transpacific Imaginations
History, Literature, Counterpoetics
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Publication Date: 02/28/2008