The Boundless Sea : Self and History / Gary Y. Okihiro.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Okihiro, Gary Y., 1945-2024, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Asian Americans--Biography.

Asian Americans.

United States--History--Philosophy.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (334 pages)

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Remembrance

Acknowledgments

Introduction

PART I. Subject-Self

PART II.Subjects

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780520973886

0520973887

OCLC:

1090283922