Introduction: “Our Sea of Islands”:
Intermingling with Japan

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Chapter 1: Japanese Colonial Representations
of the “South Island”:
Textual Hybridity, Transracial Love
Plots, and Postcolonial Consciousness

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Chapter 2: Nanyo-Orientalism in Postwar
Japanese Texts on the Pacific:
From Dankichi and Godzilla
to Macias Gilly

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Chapter 3: A Postcolonial Dialogue:
“Incomprehensible Nanyo”
(Nakajima Atsushi) / “Faceless
Japan” (Albert Wendt)

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Chapter 4: “Japanese Diaspora”
and Hawaiian Literature:
Japanese Imperialism and “Local”
Japanese Postcolonial Consciousness

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Chapter 5: Colonial Mirror Images
of Micronesia and Japan:
Beyond the Tug of War between
“Americanization” and “Japanization”

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