Beyond the War challenges war-centered interpretations of one ot the twentieth century’s most publicized armed conflict by recontructing the largely overlooked history of the Falkland/Malvinas Islands before 1982. Whereas most scholarship treats the Islands’ past and aftermath as chapters in a bilateral sovereignty dispute between Argentina and the United Kingdom, this book shifts the focus to the complex and evolving relationships between islanders—mostly of British origin—and Argentines in the four decades preceding the war. It traces how mutual ignorance shaped these relations until the 1960s, and how political, economic, and diplomatic changes gradually transformed them. The book examines the Islands’ structural vulnerabilities, Argentina’s claims following the 1965 UN resolution, and the controversial actions of Argentine nationalists, while reconstructing the impact of the 1971 Communications Agreement both in the Islands and in the mainland. It also explores how ordinary Argentines perceived the Malvinas by analyzing popular culture. Ultimately, the book argues that war was not inevitable, revealing moments of collaboration and exchange that made alternative futures conceivable.

The central argument of this chapter is that the poetry produced from 1965 to 1995 becomes legible as forming an Asian American poetics only about a decade after the period’s closing date. The chapter focuses on identifying and unpacking two foundational interpretive frameworks characterizing recent discussions of Asian American poetry. The first theorizes a crucial temporal discontinuity within the timeline of that poetry, beginning in the early 1980s with the publication of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictee (1982). The second theorizes how contemporary Asian American poetics deploys this central discontinuity as a strategic necessity that allows a more flexible consideration of how Asian American poetry develops in parallel with the broader goals of the Asian American political movement, grounded in the late 1960s. Utilizing these two foundational frameworks, critical formulations of an Asian American poetics enact a subtle but significant transition away from discussions of the politics of race and representation, and toward a broader theoretical mapping of the politics of race as form, while nonetheless remaining committed to the sociopolitical project of Asian American studies.