The Boundless Sea

Self and History
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-520-30966-1
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 336 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 210 mm x 160 mm, Gewicht: 514 g

The last book in a trilogy of explorations on space and time from a preeminent scholar, The Boundless Sea is Gary Y. Okihiro’s most innovative yet. Whereas Okihiro’s previous books, Island World and Pineapple Culture, sought to deconstruct islands and continents, tropical and temperate zones, this book interrogates the assumed divides between space and time, memoir and history, and the historian and the writing of history. Okihiro uses himself—from Okinawan roots, growing up on a sugar plantation in Hawai'i, researching in Botswana, and teaching in California—to reveal the historian’s craft involving diverse methodologies and subject matters. Okihiro’s imaginative narrative weaves back and forth through decades and across vast spatial and societal differences, theorized as historical formations, to critique history’s conventions. Taking its title from a translation of the author’s surname, The Boundless Sea is a deeply personal and reflective volume that challenges how we think about time and space, notions of history.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Okihiro, Gary Y.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Remembrance
Acknowledgments

Introduction

PART 1. Subject-Self
1. Black Stream (Obaban)
2. Self (Okasan)
3. Naturalizations (Otosan)

PART 2. Subjects
4. Extinctions
5. Third World
6. Antipodes
7. History

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Gary Y. Okihiro is Professor Emeritus of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University and Visiting Professor of American Studies at Yale University. His most recent book is Third World Studies: Theorizing Liberation. The Boundless Sea is the third volume in a trilogy on space and time. The first volume is Island World: A History of Hawai'i and the United States, and the second is Pineapple Culture: A History of the Tropical and Temperate Zones.