Brian Russell Roberts is Associate Professor of English at Brigham Young University. Michelle Ann Stephens is Professor of English and Latino and Caribbean Studies at Rutgers University, New Brunswick.

"This book will become seminal for two key reasons at least: (1) it comprehensively demonstrates the Americas are archipelagic; and (2) it pushes relational thinking further than to date, suggesting we are now straining at some older concepts and verging on new theoretical frameworks. In doing so, Archipelagic American Studies both speaks back to American studies and cultural studies, and develops useful theoreticalconcerns for island studies scholars, and others invested in wider relational and archipelagic turns." - Jonathan Pugh (Island Studies Journal) “A transformative series of essays. Archipelagic American Studies sets an important new course toward geographic, political, and cultural recognition of Island spaces and places.” - Rebecca Hogue (Contemporary Pacific) "The many essays in this book . . . provide readers with opportunities to rethink their own relationship(s) with archipelagos and how we may situate our work. . . . Transformative." - Emalani Case (Journal of Pacific Studies) "Collectively, the anthology highlights the limitations of US-centric understandings of archipelagos and presents a nuanced display of the lasting impacts and contemporary reaches of US imperialism. . . . I highly recommend the collection to scholars concerned with the Asia Pacific region’ as the editors offer a systematised and organised arrangement of theories and methodologies for thinking like an archipelago."- Sylvia C Frain (Asia Pacific Viewpoint) "This book provided me with tools to begin to think about my own group of islands differently, to recentre my concerns and to begin to unravel the consequences of dominant, continental thinking in real-life situations." - Emalani Case (Journal of Pacific History) "As we read Archipelagic American Studies, in fact, we embark on a journey which is full of twists and turns, instructive and rewarding, and for which Roberts and Stephens provide an invaluable road map, a comprehensive introductory essay which enables us to impart meaning and purpose to every stop in our journey in relation to the overarching trajectory of the volume." - Maria Cristina Fumagalli (Journal of American Studies) "Archipelagic American Studies is, overall, an important intervention in and beyond the discipline of American studies. Its remapping of the United States and the Americas at large as an archipelagic formation is a bold gesture that has implications for the many fields concerned with spaces where land and see meet and with the peoples and cultures that inhabit them. The book is a necessary read for anyone interested in decontinentalizing scholarship related to empire and nation." - Natalie Catasús (sx salon)

• Editors' Acknowledgments  xiIntroduction. Archipelagic American Studies: Decontinentalizing the Study of American Culture / Brian Russell Roberts and Michelle Ann Stephens  1Part I. Theories and Methods for an Archipelagic American Studies1. Heurestic Geographies: Territories and Areas, Islands and Archipelagoes / Lanny Thompson  572. Imagining the Archipelago / Elaine Stratford  74Part II. Archipelagic Mappings and Meta-Geographies3. Guam and Archipelagic Black Global Imaginary / Craig Santos Perez / 974. The Archipelagic Black Global Imaginary: Walter White's Pacific Island Hopping / Etsuko Taketani  1135. It Takes an Archipelago to Compare Otherwise / Susan Gillman  133Part III. Empires and Archipelagoes6. Colonial and Mexican Archipelagoes: Remiagining Colonial Caribbean Studies / Yolanda MartÍnez-San Miguel  1557. Invisible Islands: Remapping the Transpacific Archipelago of US Empire in Carlos Bulosan's America Is in the Heart / Joseph Keith  1748. "Myth of the Continents": American Vulnerabilities and "Rum and Colca-Cola" / Nicole A. Waligora-Davis  191Part IV. Islands of Resistance9. "Shades of Paradise": Craig Santos Perez's Transpacific Voyages / John Carlos Rowe  21310. Insubordinate Islands and Coastal Chaos: Pauline Hopkins's Literary Land/Seascapes / Cherene Serrard-Johnson  23211. "We Are Not Americans": Competing Rhetorical Archipelagoes in Hawai'i / Brandy Nālani McDougall 259Part V. Ecologies of Relation12. Performing Archipelagic Identities in Bill Reid, Robert Sullivan, and Syaman Rapongan / Hsinya Huang  28113. Archipelagic Trash: Despised Forms in the Cultural History of the Americas / RamÓn E. Soto-Crespo  30214. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch as Metaphor: The (American) Pacific You Can't See / Alice Te Punga Somerville  320Part VI. Insular Imaginaries15. The Tropics of Josephine: Space, Time, and Hybrid Movements / Matthew Pratt Guterl  34116. The Stranger by the Shore: The Archipelization of Caliban in Antillean Theatre / J. Michael Dash  356Part VII. Migrating Identities, Moving Borders17. The Governors-General: Caribbean Canadian and Pacific New Zealand Success Stories / Birte Blascheck and Teresia Teaiwa  37318. Living the West Indian Dream: Archipelagic Cosmopolitanism and Triangulated Economies of Desire in Jamaican Popular Culture / Ifeoma Kiddoe Nwankwo  39019. Offshore Identities: Ruptures in the 300-Second Average Handling Time / Allan Punzalan Isaac  411Afterword. The Archipelagic Accretion / Paul GilesSelected Bibliography  437Contributors  453Index

Brian Russell Roberts is Associate Professor of English at Brigham Young University. Michelle Ann Stephens is Professor of English and Latino and Caribbean Studies at Rutgers University, New Brunswick.

"This book will become seminal for two key reasons at least: (1) it comprehensively demonstrates the Americas are archipelagic; and (2) it pushes relational thinking further than to date, suggesting we are now straining at some older concepts and verging on new theoretical frameworks. In doing so, Archipelagic American Studies both speaks back to American studies and cultural studies, and develops useful theoreticalconcerns for island studies scholars, and others invested in wider relational and archipelagic turns." - Jonathan Pugh (Island Studies Journal) “A transformative series of essays. Archipelagic American Studies sets an important new course toward geographic, political, and cultural recognition of Island spaces and places.” - Rebecca Hogue (Contemporary Pacific) "The many essays in this book . . . provide readers with opportunities to rethink their own relationship(s) with archipelagos and how we may situate our work. . . . Transformative." - Emalani Case (Journal of Pacific Studies) "Collectively, the anthology highlights the limitations of US-centric understandings of archipelagos and presents a nuanced display of the lasting impacts and contemporary reaches of US imperialism. . . . I highly recommend the collection to scholars concerned with the Asia Pacific region’ as the editors offer a systematised and organised arrangement of theories and methodologies for thinking like an archipelago."- Sylvia C Frain (Asia Pacific Viewpoint) "This book provided me with tools to begin to think about my own group of islands differently, to recentre my concerns and to begin to unravel the consequences of dominant, continental thinking in real-life situations." - Emalani Case (Journal of Pacific History) "As we read Archipelagic American Studies, in fact, we embark on a journey which is full of twists and turns, instructive and rewarding, and for which Roberts and Stephens provide an invaluable road map, a comprehensive introductory essay which enables us to impart meaning and purpose to every stop in our journey in relation to the overarching trajectory of the volume." - Maria Cristina Fumagalli (Journal of American Studies) "Archipelagic American Studies is, overall, an important intervention in and beyond the discipline of American studies. Its remapping of the United States and the Americas at large as an archipelagic formation is a bold gesture that has implications for the many fields concerned with spaces where land and see meet and with the peoples and cultures that inhabit them. The book is a necessary read for anyone interested in decontinentalizing scholarship related to empire and nation." - Natalie Catasús (sx salon)

• Editors' Acknowledgments  xiIntroduction. Archipelagic American Studies: Decontinentalizing the Study of American Culture / Brian Russell Roberts and Michelle Ann Stephens  1Part I. Theories and Methods for an Archipelagic American Studies1. Heurestic Geographies: Territories and Areas, Islands and Archipelagoes / Lanny Thompson  572. Imagining the Archipelago / Elaine Stratford  74Part II. Archipelagic Mappings and Meta-Geographies3. Guam and Archipelagic Black Global Imaginary / Craig Santos Perez / 974. The Archipelagic Black Global Imaginary: Walter White's Pacific Island Hopping / Etsuko Taketani  1135. It Takes an Archipelago to Compare Otherwise / Susan Gillman  133Part III. Empires and Archipelagoes6. Colonial and Mexican Archipelagoes: Remiagining Colonial Caribbean Studies / Yolanda MartÍnez-San Miguel  1557. Invisible Islands: Remapping the Transpacific Archipelago of US Empire in Carlos Bulosan's America Is in the Heart / Joseph Keith  1748. "Myth of the Continents": American Vulnerabilities and "Rum and Colca-Cola" / Nicole A. Waligora-Davis  191Part IV. Islands of Resistance9. "Shades of Paradise": Craig Santos Perez's Transpacific Voyages / John Carlos Rowe  21310. Insubordinate Islands and Coastal Chaos: Pauline Hopkins's Literary Land/Seascapes / Cherene Serrard-Johnson  23211. "We Are Not Americans": Competing Rhetorical Archipelagoes in Hawai'i / Brandy Nālani McDougall 259Part V. Ecologies of Relation12. Performing Archipelagic Identities in Bill Reid, Robert Sullivan, and Syaman Rapongan / Hsinya Huang  28113. Archipelagic Trash: Despised Forms in the Cultural History of the Americas / RamÓn E. Soto-Crespo  30214. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch as Metaphor: The (American) Pacific You Can't See / Alice Te Punga Somerville  320Part VI. Insular Imaginaries15. The Tropics of Josephine: Space, Time, and Hybrid Movements / Matthew Pratt Guterl  34116. The Stranger by the Shore: The Archipelization of Caliban in Antillean Theatre / J. Michael Dash  356Part VII. Migrating Identities, Moving Borders17. The Governors-General: Caribbean Canadian and Pacific New Zealand Success Stories / Birte Blascheck and Teresia Teaiwa  37318. Living the West Indian Dream: Archipelagic Cosmopolitanism and Triangulated Economies of Desire in Jamaican Popular Culture / Ifeoma Kiddoe Nwankwo  39019. Offshore Identities: Ruptures in the 300-Second Average Handling Time / Allan Punzalan Isaac  411Afterword. The Archipelagic Accretion / Paul GilesSelected Bibliography  437Contributors  453Index

Brian Russell Roberts is Associate Professor of English at Brigham Young University. Michelle Ann Stephens is Professor of English and Latino and Caribbean Studies at Rutgers University, New Brunswick.

"This book will become seminal for two key reasons at least: (1) it comprehensively demonstrates the Americas are archipelagic; and (2) it pushes relational thinking further than to date, suggesting we are now straining at some older concepts and verging on new theoretical frameworks. In doing so, Archipelagic American Studies both speaks back to American studies and cultural studies, and develops useful theoreticalconcerns for island studies scholars, and others invested in wider relational and archipelagic turns." - Jonathan Pugh (Island Studies Journal) “A transformative series of essays. Archipelagic American Studies sets an important new course toward geographic, political, and cultural recognition of Island spaces and places.” - Rebecca Hogue (Contemporary Pacific) "The many essays in this book . . . provide readers with opportunities to rethink their own relationship(s) with archipelagos and how we may situate our work. . . . Transformative." - Emalani Case (Journal of Pacific Studies) "Collectively, the anthology highlights the limitations of US-centric understandings of archipelagos and presents a nuanced display of the lasting impacts and contemporary reaches of US imperialism. . . . I highly recommend the collection to scholars concerned with the Asia Pacific region’ as the editors offer a systematised and organised arrangement of theories and methodologies for thinking like an archipelago."- Sylvia C Frain (Asia Pacific Viewpoint) "This book provided me with tools to begin to think about my own group of islands differently, to recentre my concerns and to begin to unravel the consequences of dominant, continental thinking in real-life situations." - Emalani Case (Journal of Pacific History) "As we read Archipelagic American Studies, in fact, we embark on a journey which is full of twists and turns, instructive and rewarding, and for which Roberts and Stephens provide an invaluable road map, a comprehensive introductory essay which enables us to impart meaning and purpose to every stop in our journey in relation to the overarching trajectory of the volume." - Maria Cristina Fumagalli (Journal of American Studies) "Archipelagic American Studies is, overall, an important intervention in and beyond the discipline of American studies. Its remapping of the United States and the Americas at large as an archipelagic formation is a bold gesture that has implications for the many fields concerned with spaces where land and see meet and with the peoples and cultures that inhabit them. The book is a necessary read for anyone interested in decontinentalizing scholarship related to empire and nation." - Natalie Catasús (sx salon)

• Editors' Acknowledgments  xiIntroduction. Archipelagic American Studies: Decontinentalizing the Study of American Culture / Brian Russell Roberts and Michelle Ann Stephens  1Part I. Theories and Methods for an Archipelagic American Studies1. Heurestic Geographies: Territories and Areas, Islands and Archipelagoes / Lanny Thompson  572. Imagining the Archipelago / Elaine Stratford  74Part II. Archipelagic Mappings and Meta-Geographies3. Guam and Archipelagic Black Global Imaginary / Craig Santos Perez / 974. The Archipelagic Black Global Imaginary: Walter White's Pacific Island Hopping / Etsuko Taketani  1135. It Takes an Archipelago to Compare Otherwise / Susan Gillman  133Part III. Empires and Archipelagoes6. Colonial and Mexican Archipelagoes: Remiagining Colonial Caribbean Studies / Yolanda MartÍnez-San Miguel  1557. Invisible Islands: Remapping the Transpacific Archipelago of US Empire in Carlos Bulosan's America Is in the Heart / Joseph Keith  1748. "Myth of the Continents": American Vulnerabilities and "Rum and Colca-Cola" / Nicole A. Waligora-Davis  191Part IV. Islands of Resistance9. "Shades of Paradise": Craig Santos Perez's Transpacific Voyages / John Carlos Rowe  21310. Insubordinate Islands and Coastal Chaos: Pauline Hopkins's Literary Land/Seascapes / Cherene Serrard-Johnson  23211. "We Are Not Americans": Competing Rhetorical Archipelagoes in Hawai'i / Brandy Nālani McDougall 259Part V. Ecologies of Relation12. Performing Archipelagic Identities in Bill Reid, Robert Sullivan, and Syaman Rapongan / Hsinya Huang  28113. Archipelagic Trash: Despised Forms in the Cultural History of the Americas / RamÓn E. Soto-Crespo  30214. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch as Metaphor: The (American) Pacific You Can't See / Alice Te Punga Somerville  320Part VI. Insular Imaginaries15. The Tropics of Josephine: Space, Time, and Hybrid Movements / Matthew Pratt Guterl  34116. The Stranger by the Shore: The Archipelization of Caliban in Antillean Theatre / J. Michael Dash  356Part VII. Migrating Identities, Moving Borders17. The Governors-General: Caribbean Canadian and Pacific New Zealand Success Stories / Birte Blascheck and Teresia Teaiwa  37318. Living the West Indian Dream: Archipelagic Cosmopolitanism and Triangulated Economies of Desire in Jamaican Popular Culture / Ifeoma Kiddoe Nwankwo  39019. Offshore Identities: Ruptures in the 300-Second Average Handling Time / Allan Punzalan Isaac  411Afterword. The Archipelagic Accretion / Paul GilesSelected Bibliography  437Contributors  453Index