Trans-Pacific Cultural Studies

In the wake of 9/11 terrorist attacks and the Iraq War, a number of scholars and critics started reconfiguring the discourse of globalism by introducing such ideas as Planetarity (Gayatri Spivak, 2003), Hemispheric Imagination (Gretchen Murphy, 2005), Deep Time (Wai Chee Dimock, 2008), Transpacific Imagination (Yunte Huang, 2008), Deep Maps (Shelley Fisher Fishkin, 2011), and Deterritorialization (Paul Giles, 2011). This title seeks to present perspectives on such ideas as well as the traditional concepts of transnational and transregional cultural expression. It introduces transatlantic, transpacific and even global viewpoints to provide a comprehensive view of cultural exchanges and growth across the Pacific.