We Are the Ocean : : Selected Works / / Epeli Hau'ofa.

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 alte...

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Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2008]
©2008
Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (363 p.) :; 4 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Part I: Rethinking
  • Anthropology and Pacific Islanders
  • The New South Pacific Society: Integration and Independence
  • Part II. Reflecting
  • Our Sea of Islands
  • The Ocean in Us
  • Pasts to Remember
  • Our Place Within: Foundations for a Creative Oceania
  • Part III. Creating
  • The Writer as an Outsider
  • The Glorious Pacific Way
  • The Tuktuks (Excerpt from Kisses in the Nederends)
  • Oilei and Babu (Excerpt from Kisses in the Nederends)
  • Epeli Hauofa Interviewed by Subramani
  • Part IV. Revisiting
  • Thy Kingdom Come: The Democratisation of Aristocratic Tonga
  • His Majesty King Täufa'ähau Tupou IV: An Appreciation
  • Blood in the Kava Bowl
  • Index
  • About the Author