Syaman Rapongan

Broschiertes Buch

Eyes of the Ocean

Beschreibung

Eyes of the Ocean is Syaman Raponganâ s literary autobiography, both a powerful story of survival in a settler state and a masterful portrait of the Indigenous artist as a young man.

Autor

Syaman Rapongan is an acclaimed author who grew up on Pongso no Tao or Orchid Island. After spending more than a decade studying and working in Taiwan, he returned to his home in 1989, joining the local Indigenous social movement and protesting a nuclear waste facility, and turned to literature in the 1990s. He has also made documentary films, founded a workshop on oceanic ethnography, and crossed the Pacific Ocean in a canoe. Darryl Sterk is associate professor of translation at Lingnan University in Hong Kong. He has translated works by a number of Taiwanese writers, including Wu Ming-Yi's The Stolen Bicycle (2017) and Kevin Chen's Ghost Town (2022).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. August 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 215mm x 141mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 350g
• ISBN-13: 9780231219792
• ISBN-10: 0231219792
• Artikelnr.: 73871149