Publication

2019 - University of California Press

Language

English

Word Count

84,000 words, Guess

Page Count

336 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139780520309654
  • ISBN-100520309650
  • Library of Congress Control Number2019010296
  • OCLC Control Number1088542570
  • Better World Books9780520309654
and 1 more

Classifications

  • LCCE184.A75O379 2019
  • LCCE184.A75 O379 2019

Description

"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 of time and across vast spatial and societal differences, theorized as historical formations, to critique history's conventions. Taking its title from 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"--Provided by publisher.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Boundless Sea: Self and HistoryUniversity of California Press2019-01-01

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