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We Are the Ocean: Selected Works
Epeli Hau´ofa
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Description for We Are the Ocean: Selected Works
Paperback. A collection of essays, fiction, and poetry which highlights problems confronted by the region of Ocenaia and suggests alternative perspectives and ways in which its people might reorganize to relate effectively to the world. Num Pages: 232 pages, 4 illustrations. BIC Classification: DN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 336.
We Are the Ocean is a collection of essays, fiction, and poetry by Epeli Hau'ofa, whose writing over the past three decades has consistently challenged prevailing notions about Oceania and prescriptions for its development. He highlights major problems confronted by the region and suggests alternative perspectives and ways in which its people might reorganize to relate effectively to the changing world.Hau'ofa's essays criss-cross Oceania, creating a navigator's star chart of discussion and debate. Spurning the arcana of the intellectual establishments where he was schooled, Hau'ofa has crafted a distinctive-often lyrical, at times angry-voice that speaks directly to the people of ... Read more
We Are the Ocean is a collection of essays, fiction, and poetry by Epeli Hau'ofa, whose writing over the past three decades has consistently challenged prevailing notions about Oceania and prescriptions for its development. He highlights major problems confronted by the region and suggests alternative perspectives and ways in which its people might reorganize to relate effectively to the changing world.Hau'ofa's essays criss-cross Oceania, creating a navigator's star chart of discussion and debate. Spurning the arcana of the intellectual establishments where he was schooled, Hau'ofa has crafted a distinctive-often lyrical, at times angry-voice that speaks directly to the people of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Hawaii Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Honolulu, HI, United States
ISBN
9780824831738
SKU
V9780824831738
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About Epeli Hau´ofa
Epeli Hau'ofa was born in 1939 in Papua New Guinea and was educated in Papua New Guinea, Tonga, Fiji, Australia, and Canada. Since 1983 he has been working at the University of the South Pacific's main campus in Suva, Fiji, where he is the founder and current director of the Oceania Centre for Arts and Culture, established in 1997.
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