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challenges notions of history
challenges thinking of time and space
critique of historys conventions
divides between space and time
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exploration on space and time
historian and writing of history
imaginative
innovative
last book in trilogy
memoir and history
okinawan roots
personal
reflective
researching in botswana
sugar plantation in hawaii
teaching in california
trilogy
Product details
- ISBN 9780520309661
- Weight: 544g
- Dimensions: 152 x 203mm
- Publication Date: 08 Oct 2019
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
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.
