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&ldquo;A hauntingly beautiful memoir about family and identity.&rdquo; &mdash;NPR, Here & Now &ldquo;Masterful . . . Brina&rsquo;s writing is crisp, captivating, and profound. She is vulnerable, raw, and relatable, and her stories will no doubt cause readers to reflect on their relationships with their own parents. As educational as it is entertaining, Speak, Okinawa is well worth the read.&rdquo; &mdash;The Associated Press&ldquo;A gorgeous literary memoir of inner exploration and the search for identity.&rdquo; &mdash;Good Morning America"In Speak, Okinawa, Elizabeth Miki Brina beautifully combs a lifetime of memory, love, loss, and the connections that bind us to one another. In exploring how one comes to be, Brina&rsquo;s prose illuminates and dazzles&mdash;and we see, in the end, what was intangible made clear in her writing. Speak, Okinawa is indelible, and Brina&rsquo;s words are unforgettable.&rdquo; &mdash;Bryan Washington, author of Memorial&ldquo;Speak, Okinawa is the book I&rsquo;ve needed my entire life. Elizabeth Miki Brina plumbs the depths of mixed-race girlhood, parental love and harm, and the daily, intimate aches of growing up between cultures. This is a book that gives feelings&mdash;however fleeting&mdash;clear form. I urge everyone to read it.&rdquo; &mdash;Jessica J. Lee, author of Two Trees Make a Forest, winner of the Hilary Weston Writers&rsquo; Trust Prize&ldquo;Speak, Okinawa is a virtuosic and unflinching search for clarity.&rdquo; &mdash;Poets & Writers"Speak, Okinawa is the rarest of books: as expansive as a history, propulsive as a novel, and intimate as a confession. It reads like a great consciousness springing to life. This book is more than an eye-popping debut, more than the introduction of a hugely talented writer. It is a time machine, a love letter, a revelation, a triumph. We are lucky to have it.&rdquo; &mdash;M.O. Walsh, author of My Sunshine Away and The Big Door Prize"Searingly candid . . . Poignant . . . Powerful.&rdquo; &mdash;The New Yorker"In America, we rarely inherit language for grappling with the fraught legacies of family and identity, memory and erasure, empire and occupation. But in Speak, Okinawa, Elizabeth Miki Brina bravely charts a path toward self-recognition and reconciliation, with prose so powerful and pristine it often left me hovering at the edge of tears.&#160;This&#160;is a bracing, luminous debut that will long be remembered, and long turned to for inspiration.&rdquo; &mdash;Francisco Cant&uacute;, author of The Line Becomes a River&ldquo;Brina recounts, with piercing candidness and clarity, the almost claustrophobic world of an only child and her parents . . . The memoir is also a portrait of the devastating effects of imperialism and racism on a person&rsquo;s identity, self-worth, and relationships&mdash;and offers a perspective on how a person can combat these legacies.&rdquo; &mdash;The Washington Post &ldquo;Brina captivates in her stunning and intimate debut memoir . . . This nuanced tale goes both wide and deep, and is as moving as it is ambitious. Memoir lovers will be enthralled.&rdquo; &mdash;Publishers Weekly&ldquo;Deeply human . . . A forthright and tunneling inquiry into how the author came to understand the many inherited layers of herself and her racial identity . . . Artfully concerned with the DNA-altering effects of trauma and the almost unfathomable power of language, Brina&rsquo;s work opens a window on a lifelong search for peace, and the life-giving work of listening.&rdquo; &mdash;Booklist (starred)&ldquo;A masterful debut . . . A can&rsquo;t-miss memoir that will stay with readers after they finish the last page.&rdquo; &mdash;Library Journal (starred) "I was completely transported by this memoir. At once a reckoning with cultural and personal identity, a revealing journey into one family&rsquo;s experience, and an important examination of a beloved, too-often overlooked island and its people, Speak, Okinawa is a phenomenal piece of work. I can&rsquo;t wait for this moving story to be shared with the world.&rdquo; &mdash;Sarah Bird, author of Daughter of a Daughter of a Queen &ldquo;A guilty and ultimately redemptive love letter to a mother. This book is medicine in its anguished honesty, countering the poison of internalised racism.&rdquo; &mdash;Jay Griffiths, author of A Country Called Childhood&ldquo;With searing honesty, Brina accomplishes the task of any great memoir: to make the singular speak for many . . . Speak, Okinawa is a comfort to anyone who has felt foreign in their own skin, family, or society . . . Brina&rsquo;s writing shines.&rdquo; &mdash;The Japan Times   &ldquo;Brilliant.&rdquo; &mdash;The Times-Picayune  &ldquo;Brave.&rdquo; &mdash;Ploughshares  &ldquo;This is a memoir about daughterhood, home and homelands. It will make you want to call your parents. This book will teach you history and may well hurt your heart.&rdquo; &mdash;Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, author of Starling Days &ldquo;Elizabeth Miki Brina captures the complicated reality of being a mixed-race Asian woman in a way I&rsquo;ve rarely encountered before. With searing clarity, she excavates a family story shrouded in silence that spans across generations. Her mode of storytelling is tender, precise, and hypnotic.&rdquo; &mdash;Nina Mingya Powles, author of Tiny Moons: A Year of Eating in Shanghai&ldquo;The history of Okinawa, told in the first-person plural, is jarring in the most eye-opening way.&rdquo; &mdash;BookPage (starred) &ldquo;A stupendous book . . . Gorgeous . . . Elizabeth Miki Brina claims her voice with resounding clarity . . . The knowledge she reveals here&mdash;about herself, her complex heritage, her history&mdash;proves breathtaking . . . Moving fluidly between intimate memories and documented history, Brina creates a multi-layered literary gift.&rdquo; &mdash;Shelf Awareness   &ldquo;A compelling memoir . . . In clear, unfettered prose Brina rediscovers the history and culture of Okinawa . . . Speak, Okinawa sheds light in the dark, unspoken corners of biracial identity, the chasms of misunderstanding in America today&mdash;and the wider western world too.&rdquo; &mdash;Spectator &ldquo;In Speak, Okinawa we become immersed in the experience of Okinawa as a dual colony and understand Brina&rsquo;s memories exist in that diasporic context. And as we do, we see and feel the way trauma crosses generations . . . This book mattered to me in ways I can&rsquo;t articulate in this review. I really, really don&rsquo;t know what else to say. And I feel a kind of unspeakable shame that I don&rsquo;t. The stories mattered. The history mattered. The words mattered.&rdquo; &mdash;The International Examiner

A Memoir

Speak, Okinawa

This is a tasty collection of well researched and conceptualised chapters on the urgent matter of decolonising higher education in post-colonial Africa. The book contributes substantially to unravelling a prevailing conceptual paralysis on the subject of decolonising higher education and will be an excellent companion for researchers, students, policy makers and practitioners with a focus on disrupting the stranglehold of the western canon on Africa’s higher education.

-Felix Maringe, Professor of Higher Education, University of the Witwatersrand 

A profoundly sterling scholarly discourse on decolonizing African higher education from its current colonial umbrage. Knaus, Mino, and Seroto have assembled a volume that highlights the need for higher education in Africa to be relevant to the African socio-cultural, political and economic contexts. Their collection should be of interest to educators, scholars, and policy makers on African education.

-Edward Shizha, Professor of Youth & Children's Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University


Decolonising African Higher Education vibrates with interruption, reclamation and repair. Across nine focused chapters, the authors wrestle with the legacies of epistemic, racial and material injustice and inequality that persist in the current geopolitical and geocultural conditions of higher education in their midst. With ethical wisdom born of resistance and desire, they share the ways in which their transformative imaginaries of Indigeneity will operate and flourish, discussing specific examples, cases and studies from across the complex ecology of knowledges and knowledge systems, curricula, academic citizenry and engagement of the African university.

-Dr Dina Zoe Belluigi, School of Social Science, Education and Social Work, Queen’s University Belfast; and Chair of the Study of the Critical Studies of Higher Education Transformation, Nelson Mandela University


The book "Decolonizing African Higher Education" covers diverse topics across the Higher Education curriculum, with contributions from academics across the African continent. Knaus, Mino, and Seroto emphasize Indigenization, contextualization, Africanisation and the use of African epistemologies as key aspects towards a transformative agenda for the decolonization of African Universities. I fully endorse this work.

-Soul Shava, Ph.D., Professor, University of South Africa


Most often, colonisation is seen in the context of physical colonisation of territory. However, physical colonisation went with, among others, the mission civilisatrice which sought to denigrate and decimate all indigenous knowledge and lifestyle, leading to the colonisation of the mind. This insidious element of colonialism extended to the highest echelons of formal education. Yet, the formal end of colonialism did not extend to decolonisation of the mind. Thus, the basis of higher education in Africa, as this book seeks to establish, remains colonised. The book, therefore, represents an important contribution to decolonising higher education in Africa to pave the way for the recognition and application of indigenous knowledge and indigenous means of knowledge production.

-Kwadwo Appiagye-Atua, Professor, University of Ghana Legon 


Knaus, Mino, and Seroto provide a roadmap for transcending the antiquated colonially imposed confines of Africa's formal education. Readers will be equipped to leverage on emerging opportunities offered by changing global dynamics - such as increased internet access and the effects of COVID-19 across Africa - to establish authenticity in education towards accelerated individual, community and societal advancement across the region.

-Dr. Chika Ezeanya Esiobu, Visiting Lecturer, University of Rwanda College of Business and Economics and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Africana Studies at California State University, Dominguez Hills


Knaus, Mino, and Seroto offer more than an alternative perspective on how to re-imagine higher education. Readers are provided African-centered paradigmatic perspectives, research, and praxes that are entrenched in Indigenous wisdom, serving to decolonise African education as well as disrupt epistemic apartheid. If we are who we've been waiting for...then we are ready!

-Dr. Venus E. Evans-Winters, research and policy scholar, clinician in private practice, and Former Professor of Education, Women & Gender Studies, and African American Studies.

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Praise for&#160;Surviving Savannah &#160; "Fans of Christina Baker Kline and Kate Quinn will love this     beautiful, richly detailed novel about a lost bit of American maritime     history. In a seamless blending of fact and fiction, Patti Callahan has     created an atmospheric, compelling story of survival, tragedy, the enduring     power of myth and memory, and the moments that change one's     life."--Kristin Hannah, #1&#160;New York Times&#160;bestselling     author of&#160;The Great Alone "Hidden history rises from the watery depths in all its glittering     glory but also in its intimate, human detail. Meticulously researched,     beautifully written, underpinned by timeless themes of personal trauma and     its aftereffects,&#160;Surviving Savannah&#160;is a journey readers     and book clubs will treasure.&rdquo;--Lisa Wingate, #1&#160;New York Times&#160;bestselling     author of The Book of Lost Friends&ldquo;Gripping....bringing to life a little-known shipwreck in meticulous detail. [An] engrossing, centuries-spanning tale.&rdquo;--Publishers Weekly"Both Augusta and Lilly are women of their times, dependent on their family, especially the males, but their struggles at sea after the boiler explosion, and amid the fear and heavy loss, reveal courage and a resilience to survive that elevates them and brings on newfound strength."--Historical Novels Review"The stuff of which Oscar worthy movies are made, Surviving Savannah is a masterfully crafted and simply riveting read."--Midwest Book Review"Fiercely hopeful...Callahan&rsquo;s expertly-drawn characters are forced to discover how to live past tragedy, and what matters most in the aftermath. This is exactly the kind of story we need right now."--Paula McLain, New York Times bestselling author of&#160;The Paris Wife "[A]     lush, meticulously researched deep-dive into the little-known story of a     historic shipwreck....Surviving     Savannah is a lyrical homage to this southern city and makes a real     contribution to the historical record."--Stephanie     Dray, New York Times bestselling author of America&rsquo;s First     Daughter &#160; &ldquo;Through     the interwoven tales of three courageous women,&#160;Surviving Savannah&#160;&#8203;grips the reader in a spellbinding novel full of mystery,     tragedy, sacrifice, and resilience....Superb.&rdquo;--Kristina     McMorris, New York Times&#160;bestselling author of&#160;Sold on a Monday &#160; "Patti Callahan     masterfully weaves a little known historical tragedy, an enigmatic mystery,     and a searing family saga into a mesmerizing tale that will captivate     readers until the last page and beyond."--Pam Jenoff,&#160;New York     Times&#160;bestselling author of&#160;The Lost Girls of Paris "[S]pellbinding....Beautifully&#160;written with     a masterfully crafted plot,&#160;Surviving Savannah&#160;leaves     the&#160;reader&#160;breathless and marveling at the manner in which the     past and present interweave in ways we almost cannot imagine."--Marie     Benedict,&#160;New York Times&#160;bestselling author of&#160;The     Only Woman in the Room &ldquo;[A] rich tale of friendship, heritage,     forgiveness, redemption, and the thin, too-fragile line between life and     death.&#160;How will we survive the surviving?&#160;one of her     characters wonders, and it is a question that Callahan mines beautifully.     If you&rsquo;re fascinated by the&#160;Titanic, meet your new favorite     novel."--Kristin Harmel,&#160;New York Times&#160;bestselling     author of&#160;The Book of Lost Names "The astonishing story of the 'Titanic&#160;of the South' is     brought to vivid life....This tale of survival, love, and     loss, as well as Callahan&rsquo;s epic portrayals of a trio of strong, passionate     women, gripped me from the very first page. Simply masterful."--Fiona     Davis,&#160;New York Times&#160;bestselling author of&#160;The     Lions of Fifth Avenue &ldquo;Riveting...a heartfelt exploration of the pain of survival     amid incalculable loss, and a mesmerizing character study of three     women...[A] memorable and profoundly moving novel that readers are destined     to cherish.&rdquo; --Jennifer Robson,     international bestselling author of The Gown &ldquo;[A] sweeping, captivating     tale of a contemporary woman lost in a fog of grief who finds solace, and     finally, redemption, as she uncovers the long-buried secrets of a nearly     forgotten shipwreck&mdash;and the courageous women who survived to bear witness     to history.&rdquo;--Mary Kay Andrews,&#160;New York     Times&#160;bestselling author of&#160;Hello, Summer&ldquo;Atmospheric&hellip;Emotionally charged&hellip;Swimming in telling details. With Surviving Savannah, Patti Callahan has become the North Star of historical fiction.&rdquo; --Mary Alice Monroe, New York Times bestselling author of The Summer of Lost and Found

Surviving Savannah

"H. G. Wells was a profoundly English writer who championed an ideal of world citizenship. Maxim Shadurski's examination of this paradox is both searching and timely. It should be read by anyone interested in Wells and in the reflections of nationality in modern utopian writing."
--Patrick Parrinder, President, H. G. Wells Society
"This is an excellent study of England as a contemporary place and England as a futuristic state of mind converging in the works of H. G. Wells, undoubtedly one of the "Englishest" of all English writers. Maxim Shadurski revisits Wells’s "visions of alterity" with a fresh and insightful perspective and then aptly examines how these visions served as fodder for the dystopian writers of the following generations, including Aldous Huxley and George Orwell. Highly recommended!"

--Galya Diment, Byron W. and Alice L. Lockwood Professor in the Humanities, University of Washington.
Thorough and insightful, The Nationality of Utopia explores productively the strange extent to which ideas of Utopia came to be conflated with ideas of England, offering innovative, persuasive views, throughout, of the authors and contexts concerned. 
--Professor Randall Stevenson, The University of Edinburgh

A landmark in Wells scholarship. No one has ever traced so effectively the importance of Englishness in Britishness in the work of a writer so engaged in questions of nationality and the global; especially impressive is the attention that The Nationality of Utopia gives to some of Wells's later, less considered works.
--Professor Simon J. James, The University of Durham
This splendid book locates H.G.Wells in the context of other contemporary and later utopian and dystopian fiction in England, stressing Wells' positive postnational vision, in contrast to the negative portrayals in the writings of a number of his contemporaries. The arguments are highly original and nuanced and the study makes a major contribution to utopian studies and to an understanding of twentieth-century literature and politics more broadly.

--Laura Marcus, Goldsmiths' Professor of English Literature, New College, The University of Oxford

Shadurski’s study addresses Wellsian utopianism from two, we might think, opposite angles: nationalism, on the one hand, and Wells’s lifelong proselytising for a World State, on the other. It proves an illuminating pincer movement and facilitates a series of original and penetrating readings of several key Wellsian works. [...] there is no doubt that this book is a major intervention into both the study of Wells as a writer and thinker, and into utopian theory more broadly. Anyone interested in either field will want to seek it out, and future critical debate on both topics will need to take it into account.
--Adam Roberts, Professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature, Royal Holloway University of London, The Wellsian
The Nationality of Utopia is a compelling study, which – with its emphasis on the literary portrayal of Wells’s World State – might be read alongside W. Warren Wagar’s classic H. G. Wells and the World State (1961) by anyone seeking a comprehensive understanding of Wells’s conception. [...] Shadurski’s study is hugely relevant to present-day concerns, particularly (as he notes himself) Brexit, which (it might be said) was driven by an isolationist discourse that sees England as a special, even providential, nation.

--Dr Steven McLean, Associate Professor of English Literature, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, English Studies: A Journal of English Language and Literature
By suggesting intersections between Wells’s thought and that of Benson, Huxley, Orwell, Burgess and Barnes, Shadurski provides hooks upon which future research can be hung. If considered as an introduction to its subject, Shadurski’s volume has a role to play for students of utopian thought, and its availability as an affordable e-book means there is no reason why such students should not quite readily access it.

--Dr John S. Partington, independent scholar, Utopian Studies
Maxim Shadurski’s study demonstrates that reading utopia through the lens of its inflection by nationalism provides an inspiring impulse to rethink both discourses as complementary rather than mutually exclusive. [...] The Nationality of Utopia is a treat, discussing as it does in detail H. G. Wells’s numerous works and theories in a broad context both of his own times and those of the following decades.

--Professor Barbara Kłonowska, The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, New Horizons in English Studies
Shadurski’s analysis is an eminently readable journey into 20th-century literary visions of the future and therefore a worthy contribution to the rich field of Wellsian scholarship.

--Professor Oliver von Knebel Doeberitz, The University of Leipzig, Anglistik: International Journal of English Studies
Maxim Shadurski’s The Nationality of Utopia: H. G. Wells, England, and the World State is an exceptionally interesting study that could be useful not only to researchers of utopia in English literature but to all those investigating the issues of nation and nationality in the context of utopian and/or globalist discourse. Nowadays, when there is so much talk about the need for a global ‘reset’, for a kind of global solution to the accumulated problems the world is facing, we should bear in mind that Wells also wrote about these matters, yet from a different perspective. We seem to be getting ever closer to dystopia and further away from utopia, and in moments like these it is crucial that we critically reappraise the original utopian ideas, just like Shadurski masterfully does.

--Professor Zorica Đergović-Joksimović, The University of Novi Sad, Književna istorija

H. G. Wells, England, and the World State

The Nationality of Utopia

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