Oceanic Becoming

“Oceanic Becoming foregrounds Rob Wilson’s contention that new epistemological frameworks are urgently needed to create a more responsive planetary sense of multispecies belonging and becoming. The significance of his notion of Oceania inheres in its potential to open space, time, and consciousness for other values and modes of being. Epic in scope and written in luminous prose, Oceanic Becoming is an outstanding achievement of signal importance.” - Donald E. Pease, Dartmouth College

“Rob Wilson has the mind of a critic, the heart of a poet, the soul of an excommunicated liberation theologist, and the prose style of a socially astute, fiercely observant novelist. He has written a perpetually cascading oceanic ode, one that draws upon scholarship, reflection, and a life lived to tell the story of the Pacific Ocean and all the lives touched by it. Oceanic Becoming informs and inspires and changes the ways one thinks about the world---about politics, economics, literature---proposing a different way of belonging. It proves that we can still be galvanized by a most ancient of literary forms, the cosmology, disguised though it may be as academic discourse.” - Joseph Donahue, Duke University