Across Currents: Connections Between Atlantic and (Trans)Pacific Studies Contributor(s): Poppenhagen, Nicole (Editor), Temmen, Jens (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1138332763 ISBN-13: 9781138332768 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $178.20 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2018 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - General |
Dewey: 303.482 |
Physical Information: 156 pages |
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Publisher Description: This book explores connections between Atlantic studies and (trans)Pacific studies, including the potential discursive, topical, and historical overlaps of the two fields. It carves out mutual concerns and theoretical affinities, but also divergent approaches and differences. While acknowledging the fundamental differences that characterize the individual fields, the essays in this volume examine how both Atlantic and (trans)Pacific studies are part of global currents of political, activist, artistic, economic, and academic exchange. This volume brings together voices from Europe, North America, and the Pacific with disciplinary backgrounds in history, culture, and literature. Directed at scholars with a background in (trans)Pacific and/or Atlantic studies, this collection is an attempt to stimulate exchange between the two fields, to intensify their impact within the current transnational focus of literary and cultural studies, to encourage the questioning of well-mapped paths of inquiry, and to outline new theoretical approaches to both fields. This book was originally published as a special issue of the journal Atlantic Studies. |