Eyes of the Ocean

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.

Info autore

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).

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Syaman Rapongan
• Con la collaborazione di: Simon Scott (Introduzione), Sterk Darryl (Traduzione)
• Editore: Columbia University Press
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Copertina rigida
• Data pubblicazione: 26.08.2025
• Categoria: Saggistica > Enciclopedie, opere di consultazione > Dizionari di lingua straniera; Narrativa > Romanzi > Epistole, diari
• EAN: 9780231219808
• ISBN: 978-0-231-21980-8
• Numero di pagine: 272
• Categorie: FICTION / General, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Asian / Chinese, Relating to indigenous peoples, Anthologies: general, The Americas, Fiction: general and literary, Relating to Native American people, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Indigenous, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Indigenous