1st Edition
Across Currents: Connections Between Atlantic and (Trans)Pacific Studies
Introduction - Across currents: Connections between Atlantic and (Trans)Pacific studies 1. "O Carib Isle!" or "Scattered Moluccas"? Édouard Glissant’s Pacific relation 2. Crosscurrents (three poems) 3. The motions of the oceans: Circulation, displacement, expansion, and Carlos Bulosan’s America is in the Heart 4. A mari usque ad mare: Wayde Compton’s British Columbian Afroperiphery 5. From the black Atlantic to the bleak Pacific: Re-reading "Benito Cereno" 6. "Strange beasts of the sea": Captain Cook, the sea otter and the creation of a transoceanic American empire 7. Connecting Atlantic and Pacific: Theorizing the Arctic 8. Framing a new ocean genealogy: The case of Venetian cartography in the early modern period 9. Crossing oceans: an afterword
Biography
Nicole Poppenhagen holds a teaching and research appointment at Europa-Universität Flensburg, Germany, and is the recipient of the 2016 United States Ambassador’s Grant for Young Researchers in American Studies. Her research and publications focus on Chinese American literature, transpacific studies, and life writing.
Jens Temmen is a PhD Fellow with the DFG-funded Research Training Group "Minor Cosmopolitanisms" at the University of Potsdam, Germany. His research and publications focus on U.S. imperialism in the Pacific, imperial and postcolonial discourses of territoriality and legitimacy, and representations of Mars colonization in U.S. literature and culture.
