Pacific Literatures as World Literature

Hsinya Huang is Distinguished Professor of American and Comparative Literature, National Sun Yat-Sen University (NSYSU), Taiwan. Her publications include (De)Colonizing the Body: Disease, Empire, and (Alter)Native Medicine in Contemporary Native American Women's Writings (2004), Native North American Literatures: Reflections on Multiculturalism (2009), Aspects of Transnational and Indigenous Cultures (2014), and Chinese Railroad Workers: Recovery and Representation (2017). Chia-hua Lin is a Ph.D. student in the English Department of the University of Hawai‘I at Manoa, USA. She is the recipient of the 2018 Fulbright Graduate Study Grant as well as the 2020 Government Scholarship to Study Abroad (GSSA) from the Taiwanese Ministry of Education. She currently serves as a project manager at the Asia Pacific Observatory of Humanities for the Environment.

Foreword
Syaman Ranpongan (Pongso no Tao, Taiwan)
Introduction
Hsinya Huang (National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan)
Chiahua Lin (University of Hawai‘i at Manoa)
Part I Colonialism: The Pacific Ocean
1. The Wilkes Expedition (1838-1842) and the Formation of a U.S. Empire of Bases in the Pacific
John R. Eperjesi (Kyung Hee University, South Korea)
2. Epeli Hau’ofa’s Pronouns
Paul Lyons (University of Hawai‘i at Manoa, USA)
3. Mountains of Taiwan, Japanese Colonization, and Western Science
Chia-Li Kao (National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan)
4. Demilitarization and Decolonization in CHamoru Literature from Guåhan (Guam)
Craig Santos Perez (University of Hawai‘i at Manoa, USA)
Part II Indigenous Resistance to Colonialism
5. Decolonizing Guam with Poetry: “Everyday Objects with Mission” in Craig Santos Perez’s Poetry
Anna Erzsebet Szucs (Independent scholar, Hungary)
6. Remapping Manoa Valley in Hawaiian Literature
Chia Hua Lin (University of Hawai‘i at Manoa, USA)
7. Planetary Boundaries, Planetary Imaginaries: Homing Pacific Eco-poetry
Hsinya Huang (National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan)
8. The Ecological Vision of the Ainu Reflected in Their Oral Tradition
Hitoshi Oshima (Fukuoka University, Japan)
Part III Ocean and Ecology
9. Becoming Oceania: Towards a Planetary Ecopoetics, Or Reframing the Pacific Rim
Rob Wilson (University of California at Santa Cruz, USA)
10. Island Imaginations, Bioregionalism, and the Environmental Humanities
Kathryn Yalan Chang (National Taitung University, Taiwan)
11. Decolonizing Oceanic Realms: Voices from Australia Pacific
Iris Ralph (Tamkang University, Taiwan)
12. Whale as Cosmos: Multi-species Ethnography and Contemporary Indigenous Cosmopolitics
Joni Adamson (Arizona State University, USA)
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Index