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Displacing Natives
The Rhetorical Production of Hawai'i
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1999
Summary
This insightful study examines the strategies used by outsiders to usurp Hawaiian lands and undermine indigenous Hawaiian culture. Drawing upon historical and contemporary examples, Houston Wood investigates the journals of Captain Cook, Hollywood films, commercialized hula, Waikiki development schemes, and the appropriation of Pele and Kilauea by haoles to explore how these diverse productions all displace Native culture. Yet, the author emphasizes the voices that have never been completely silenced and can be heard asserting themselves today through songs, chants, literature, the internet, and the Native nationalist sovereignty movement. This impassioned argument about the linkages between textual and physical displacements of Native Hawaiians will engage all readers interested in Pacific literature and postcolonial studies.
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Edition
1/1999
Copyright Year
1999
ISBN-Print
978-0-8476-9141-8
ISBN-Online
978-0-7425-7717-6
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
223
Product Type
Monograph
Table of contents
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Contents No access
List of IIlustrations and Tables No access
Acknowledgments and Permissions No access
Orientation: Recovering Hawaiian Winds No access Pages 1 - 6
1 The Violent Rhetoric of Names No access
2 Captain James Cook, Rhetorician No access
3 The Kama'āina Anti-Conquest No access
Disorientation: Unwritable Knowledge No access
4 Displacing Pele: Hawai'i's Volcanoes in a Contact Zone No access
5 Echo Tourism: The Narrative of Nostalgia in Waikīkī No access
6 Safe Savagery: Hollywood's Hawai'i No access
Reorientation: New Histories, New Hopes No access
7 Kaho'olawe in Polyrhetoric and Monorhetoric No access
