ISBN: 1558850759

The Pacific, long a source of fantasies for EuroAmerican consumption and a testing ground for the development of EuroAmerican production, is often misrepresented by the West as one-dimens… Plus…

The Pacific, long a source of fantasies for EuroAmerican consumption and a testing ground for the development of EuroAmerican production, is often misrepresented by the West as one-dimensional, culturally monolithic. Although the Asia/Pacific region occupies a prominent place in geopolitical thinking, little is available to readers outside the region concerning the resistant communities and cultures of Pacific and Asian peoples. Asia/Pacific as Space of Cultural Production fills that gap by documenting the efforts of diverse indigenous cultures to claim and reimagine Asia/Pacific as a space for their own cultural production. From New Zealand to Japan, Taiwan to Hawaii, this innovative volume presents essays, poems, and memoirs by prominent Asia/Pacific writers that resist appropriation by transnational capitalism through the articulation of autonomous local identities and counter-histories of place and community. In addition, cultural critics spanning several locations and disciplines deconstruct representations-particularly those on film and in novels-that perpetuate Asia/Pacific as a realm of EuroAmerican fantasy. This collection, a much expanded edition of boundary 2 , offers a new perception of the Asia/Pacific region by presenting the Pacific not as a paradise or vast emptiness, but as a place where living, struggling peoples have constructed contemporary identities out of a long history of hegemony and resistance. Asia/Pacific as Space of Cultural Production will prove contemporary,fiction,genre fiction,hispanic,historical,historical fiction,literature and fiction Historical Fiction, Arte Publico Press<

ISBN: 9781558850750

EXILED FROM THEIR rarified and privileged existence in Xawa by a communist takeover, the characters of Holy Radishes must face a new set of harsh realities in the remote community of Bell… Plus…

EXILED FROM THEIR rarified and privileged existence in Xawa by a communist takeover, the characters of Holy Radishes must face a new set of harsh realities in the remote community of Belle Grande in the Florida Everglades. Sustained by memories of their bygone world in Xawa, they pursue their dreams to re-create their former lives. A host of memorable and wacky characters populate this satire of Cuban immigrant life. But foremost, Holy Radishes is the story of Nelly Pardo, a dreamer who envisions herself in the paradise called Mondovi. Holy Radishes! Fernandez, Roberto, Arte Publico Press<