Rapongan Eyes of the Ocean

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-0-231-56290-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten

Eyes of the Ocean is Syaman Rapongan’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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rapongan, Syaman

Weitere Mitwirkende

Simon, Scott

Sterk, Darryl

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatur: Sammlungen, Anthologien
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Indigene Völker

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction, by Scott E. Simon
Preface: In Search of an Island That Affords Dignity—Here I Am
1. Driving out the Devils
2. Vanishing Twice from the Human Realm
3. Navigating a Storm of Confusion
4. Searching for Lost Time
5. Choosing the Classical Literature of the Sea
Translator’s Note
Notes

Über Autor(innen)

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).