Displacing Natives

The Rhetorical Production of Hawai'i

Häftad, Engelska, 1999

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum1999-05-27
Mått156 x 227 x 19 mm
Vikt367 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SeriePacific Formations: Global Relations in Asian and Pacific Perspectives
Antal sidor240
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9780847691418

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Chapter 1 Orientation: Recovering Hawaiian WindsPart 2 From Conquest to Anti-ConquestChapter 3 The Violent Rhetoric of NamesChapter 4 Captain James Cook, RhetoricianChapter 5 The Kama'aina Anti-ConquestChapter 6 Disorientation: Unwritable KnowledgePart 7 Displacing Three Hawaiian PlacesChapter 8 Displacing Pele: Hawai'i's Volcanoes in a Contact ZoneChapter 9 Echo Tourism: The Narrative of Nostalgia in WaikikiChapter 10 Safe Savagery: Hollywood's Hawai'iChapter 11 Reorientation: New Histories, New HopesPart 12 Polyrhetoric as Critical TraditionalismismChapter 13 Kaho'olawe in Polyrhetoric and MonorhetoricChapter 14 Hawai'i in CyberspaceChapter 15 CodaChapter 16 Filmography

Wood's book offers very strong critical analyses of dominant cultural productions and discursive struggles, with a central focus on the contested terrain of representation. Displacing Natives is an excellent choice for courses that focus on on US colonialism, Hawaiian Studies, literary and visual representations of indigenous peoples, and ethnic studies. In this time of 'ena makani (stormy winds) it is important to see a scholarly work that explains the enduring process by which Hawaiian indigeneity is continuously effaced in and through the dominant popular culture.