Asia/Pacific as Space of Cultural Production

Book Overview

The Pacific, long a source of fantasies for EuroAmerican consumption and a testing ground for the development of EuroAmerican production, is often misrepresented by the West as one-dimensional, culturally monolithic. Although the Asia/Pacific region occupies a prominent place in geopolitical thinking, little is available to readers outside the region concerning the resistant communities and cultures of Pacific and Asian peoples. Asia/Pacific as...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822316439
• ISBN13: 9780822316435
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.0" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

An innovative text in Asia/Pacific cultural studies.

This collection puts together various and crucial essays in cultural criticism with poems and polemics; it is a much used and innovative text in Asia/Pacific cultural studies. It calls into question any easy US assumpttion of what "Asia Pacific" means in this paradoxically transnational and local era: this collection opens up the Pacific to new approaches, and shoud be read and used, as it is, from Taipei to Los Angeles,