An American Poetics
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Köp båda 2 för 729 krEnergetic and wide-ranging. -- John Eperjesi * Korea Herald * [A] sparklingly innovative treatment of Hawaii and New England Protestants evangelism there in the 1800s (a reading that gains new relevance in light of the election of Barack Obama). Wilson also looks at Bob Dylans identification as a born-again Christian in the late 1970s, noting that it did not lead to affirming any given neoliberal hegemony; he points out that Dylans engagement in both conversion and counter-conversion negates potential conservatism. This paradigmatic reading for a synergetic kaleidoscope includes Puritan Massachusetts and Tonga (whose novelist Epeli Hauofa Wilson interprets thoughtfully) and critiques grandiosity while celebrating possibility Wilson dazzles with a cogent, exhilarating account of turnings and re-turnings. [Its one of] the best recent books on religion and American imagination. -- Nicholas Birns * Choice * This book dives deep into the American cultural psyche of conversion and counter-conversion and delineates fascinating routes of turns and returns in the active making, recreating, and reimagining of self and world in the postcolonial U.S. empire. -- Yunte Huang, author of <i>Transpacific Imaginations</i> Be Always Converting, Be Always Converted is Rob Wilsons hymn to the Pacific. It circles among an unusual cast of characters to propose a tropics of spiritual conversion as central to an anti-imperial American intellectual tradition. This religious emphasis is fresh, often profound, and important, as steeped in Jimi Hendrix as it is in William James, and conveys a lived investment in spiritual becoming. The book is written generally in the ecstatic mode of many of its subjects, and will confirm Rob Wilsons reputation as the beat poet of American Studies. -- Eric Lott, author of <i>The Disappearing Liberal Intellectual</i> Engaging citizen-saints at the occulted turning points of regenerationhis accounts of Henry Obookiah, Jack Kerouac, and Bob Dylan prove especially fruitful in this regardWilson aspires to unblock the present imperial impasse and to remake self and nation within terms of a U.S. covenant that is subject to poesis. -- Donald Pease, author of <i>Visionary Compacts: American Renaissance Writings in Cultural Context</i>
Rob Wilson is Professor of Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
* Introduction: Conversions against Empire "And afterward we were born again, and many times ..." * The Poetics and Politics of Henry 'Opukaha'ia's Conversion *"Henry, Torn from the Stomach" Translating Hawaiian Conversion and Rebirth into Dynamics of Outer-National Becoming *"Be Always Converting, and Be Always Converted" Conversion as Semiotic Becoming, and Metamorphosis into Beatitude * Writing down the Lava Road from Damascus to Kona Counter-Conversion, Pacific Polytheism, and Re-Nativization in Epeli Hau'ofa's Oceania * Regeneration through Violence Multiple Masks of Alter-Becoming in the Japanese/American/African Poet Ai * Becoming Jeremiah inside the U.S. Empire On the Born-Again Refigurations of Bob Dylan * Epilogue: Conversions through Literature Writing Transpacific Becoming from Connecticut to Hawai'i and Asia/Pacific * Notes * Acknowledgments * Index