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Pacific Postmodern: From the Sublime to the Devious, Writing the Experimental/Local Pacific in Hawai'i
Pacific Postmodern From the Sublime to the Devious Writing the Experimental/Local Pacific in Hawai'i Author:Rob Wilson Rob Wilson writes: The chapbook, in a thick descriptive way, concerns articulating "two postmodernisms": one that would become deracinated and tied to a problematics of infinite and regressive deconstruction and word play; and another more 'postcolonial' brand of experimental postmodernism that would remain affiliated to place, locality, identi... more »ty, nation, decolonizing struggle, and resistance to global capitalism in its many ruses. I advocate for the emergence of a "mongrel poetics," and the blessings of mongrelhood existence in some community of globalized local work zones.« less