{"title":"Memories of Murder:","authors":"V. Nguyen","doi":"10.5790/HONGKONG/9789888455775.003.0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5790/HONGKONG/9789888455775.003.0010","url":null,"abstract":"This paper argues that the Other Korean Warin Viet Nam hardly means foregrounding Asians solely as victims or noblenatives. Such re-centering means acknowledging the full subjectivity of Asians, includingtheir agency, their complicity, their cruelty, and their own strategic designs forpower and profit at the expense of the weaker ones in their own societies and theirenemies and neighbors. HowKorea deals with Viet Nam of the present, the Viet Nam of its past, and the shadowof its American patron has everything to do with Korea’s transformation from oneof the world’s backwater provinces, humiliated by Japan and subordinated by theUnited States, to a chic and sleek global minipower whose projection of itself takesplace notonly in the factory, the boardroom, the stock market, and the UnitedNations, but in movie theaters, on family televisions, in the hands of readers, and inarchitecture signifying might and prowess, meant to intimidate and impress bothcitizen and tourist.","PeriodicalId":294810,"journal":{"name":"Oceanic Archives, Indigenous Epistemologies, and Transpacific American Studies","volume":"97 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115666815","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Recalling Oceanic Communities","authors":"O. Heim","doi":"10.5790/hongkong/9789888455775.003.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5790/hongkong/9789888455775.003.0012","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter situates the dramatic work of Samoan and Hawaiian playwrights John Kneubuhl and Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl in relation to an Oceanian sense of community rooted in a customarily open, fluid, and mobile consciousness of space, in order to ask how such a community consciousness may challenge dominant political identifications and empower the imagination of transnational, postcolonial forms of belonging. Noting the fundamental importance of memory in sustaining a sense of community that thrives in mobility while maintaining the indivisibility of people and land, the chapter examines the memory work performed in John Kneubuhl’s Think of a Garden and Other Plays and Victoria Kneubuhl’s Hawai‘i Nei: Island Plays, as it stirs the limits of living memory, discloses the spectral life of the past in the present, and raises questions about the relationship between loss and remembrance. In different ways, I argue, these plays can be seen to enact a sense of community that seems radically opposed to communitarian thinking in a national frame but fitting to the transnational imagination of a sea of islands, reimagining genealogies in terms of finitude, difference, and interdependence.","PeriodicalId":294810,"journal":{"name":"Oceanic Archives, Indigenous Epistemologies, and Transpacific American Studies","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121728779","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Open Ocean for Interimperial Collaboration","authors":"T. Akami","doi":"10.5790/hongkong/9789888455775.003.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5790/hongkong/9789888455775.003.0008","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter examines the Pacific Ocean as a transnational space from the perspective of the US as a new maritime empire in the region, and proposes an alternative analytical perspective for this analysis, interimperialism, to three currently dominant ones; imperialism versus nationalism; a vertical analysis of an empire; and power conflicts among the empires. The chapter focuses on experts at the two institutions, namely, the Institute of Pacific Relations and the Pan Pacific Science Congress, in the 1920s, and examines the nature of their Pan Pacific visions, a Pacific version of Pan Americanism. It argues that these experts saw the ocean as an open space that connected the people in and across the Pacific and pursued interimperial cooperative schemes, not as a space divided into closed seas where various polities competed for territorial control. Their interimperial schemes had two distinct characteristics; first, they framed their objectives in the rhetoric of a shared “imperial civilizing mission.” which satisfied moral guilt of the metropolitan elite, but still reinforced their empires’ superior position over the colonized. Second, Pan Pacific schemes ensured interimperial cooperation of managing the ocean space, rather than a conflict.","PeriodicalId":294810,"journal":{"name":"Oceanic Archives, Indigenous Epistemologies, and Transpacific American Studies","volume":"155 ","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113989873","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Residing in “South-Eastern Asia” of the Antebellum United States:","authors":"Ka Johnson","doi":"10.2307/J.CTVNB7N7C.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/J.CTVNB7N7C.8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":294810,"journal":{"name":"Oceanic Archives, Indigenous Epistemologies, and Transpacific American Studies","volume":"134 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124379738","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"American and International Whaling, c. 1770–1820:","authors":"J. Fichter","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvnb7n7c.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvnb7n7c.6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":294810,"journal":{"name":"Oceanic Archives, Indigenous Epistemologies, and Transpacific American Studies","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116991130","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}