Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-300) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: Conversions against empire : "and afterward we were born again, and many times--" -- The poetics and politics of Henry 'Ōpūkaha'ia's conversion -- "Henry, torn from the stomach" : translating Hawaiian conversion and rebirth into dynamics of outer-national becoming -- "Be always converting, and be always converted" : conversion as semiotic becoming, and metamorphosis into beatitude -- Writing down the Lava Road from Damascus to Kona : counter-conversion, Pacific polytheism, and re-nativization in Epeli Hau'ofa's Oceania -- Regeneration through violence : multiple masks of alter-becoming in the Japanese/American/African poet Ai -- Becoming Jeremiah inside the U.S. empire : on the born-again refigurations of Bob Dylan -- Epilogue: Conversions through literature : writing transpacific becoming from Connecticut to Hawai'i and Asia/Pacific.
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