We Are the Ocean: Selected Works
By: Epeli Hauʻofa
4.31
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
We Are the Ocean is a collection of essays, fiction, and poetry by Epeli Hau'ofa, whose writing ove…
Want to Read"Just as the sea is an open and ever flowing reality, so should our oceanic identity transcend all forms of insularity, to become one that is openly searching, inventive, and welcoming."-Epeli Hauʻofa, We Are the Ocean: Selected Works
"Oceania is vast, Oceania is expanding, Oceania is hospitable and generous, Oceania is humanity rising from the depths of brine and regions of fire deeper still, Oceania is us. We are the sea, we are the ocean…"-Epeli Hauʻofa, We Are the Ocean: Selected Works
"One of the more positive aspects of our existence in Oceania is that truth is flexible and negotiable, despite attempts by some of us to impose political, religious, and other forms of absolutionism. Versions of truth may be accepted for particular purposes and moments, only to be reversed when circumstances demand other versions; and we often accede to things just to stop being bombarded, and then go ahead and do what we want to do anyway."-Epeli Hauʻofa, We Are the Ocean: Selected Works
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Set in the post-martial-law era of late 1980s Taipei, Notes of a Crocodile depicts the coming-of-ag… read more
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"Unhealthy love is two people stoking a shared fantasy of desperate beauty, weaponizing passion and desire."-Qiu Miaojin, Notes of a Crocodile
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By: Caitlin Moran
4.25
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Every summer, Rose goes with her mom and dad to a lake house in Awago Beach. It's their getaway, th… read more
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"Don't worry about any of this stuff, okay? It's all just adult junk that doesn't mean anything."-Jillian Tamaki, This One Summer
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People move to New York looking for magic and nothing will convince them it isn't there. Charles… read more
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4.58
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"find the lie in your heart. the one you tell to yourself and all the world, sometimes without even knowing it. pare that lie down to its barest core, strip back the skin, and behold the truth: i am w…"-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls
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"In calligraphy, as in life, we do not retouch strokes, Master Wang often said. We must accept that what is done is done."-Jenny Tinghui Zhang, Four Treasures of the Sky
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"My life was written for me from the moment the name was given to me. Or it was not. That is the true beauty. That is the intent. We can practice all we want, telling and retelling the same story, but…"-Jenny Tinghui Zhang, Four Treasures of the Sky
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"He is mine, too."-Naomi Novik, Spinning Silver
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24. Iep Jaltok: Poems from a Marshallese Daughter (Volume 80) (Sun Tracks)
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"Even in death the boys were trouble."-Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys
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"People get rid of plenty when they move--sometimes they're changing not just places but personalities."-Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys
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4.02
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"They made data a controlled substance."-Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash
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31. We Are the Ocean: Selected Works
By: Epeli Hauʻofa
4.31
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
We Are the Ocean is a collection of essays, fiction, and poetry by Epeli Hau'ofa, whose writing ove… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Epeli Hauʻofa's We Are the Ocean: Selected Works book and Epeli Hauʻofa's We Are the Ocean: Selected Works
- poetry
- history
- theory
- the world
- academic
- indigenous
- short stories
- nonfiction
- essays
- anthropology
"Just as the sea is an open and ever flowing reality, so should our oceanic identity transcend all forms of insularity, to become one that is openly searching, inventive, and welcoming."-Epeli Hauʻofa, We Are the Ocean: Selected Works
"Oceania is vast, Oceania is expanding, Oceania is hospitable and generous, Oceania is humanity rising from the depths of brine and regions of fire deeper still, Oceania is us. We are the sea, we are …"-Epeli Hauʻofa, We Are the Ocean: Selected Works
"One of the more positive aspects of our existence in Oceania is that truth is flexible and negotiable, despite attempts by some of us to impose political, religious, and other forms of absolutionism.…"-Epeli Hauʻofa, We Are the Ocean: Selected Works
