Legendary Hawai'i and the Politics of Place: Tradition, Translation, and Tourism

Cristina Bacchilega

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press 2007

Legendary Hawai'i and the Politics of Place

Tradition, Translation, and Tourism

Cristina Bacchilega

https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812201178

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About this book

In a book with interdisciplinary appeal, Bacchilega demonstrates both how the myth of legendary Hawai'i emerged and how this vision can be unmade and reimagined.

Author / Editor information

Cristina Bacchilega is Professor of English at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. She is the author of Postmodern Fairy Tales: Gender and Narrative Strategies, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

Reviews

"A work of vigilant scholarship and elegant exposition that unsettles long-taken-for-granted genres, modes of representation, narrative codes and ascribed roles."—Hawaiian Journal of History

"Legendary Hawai'i and the Politics of Place is an examination of cultural change through textual analysis, and within those boundaries it accomplishes quite a bit. . . . Bacchilega's close reading of texts and her nuanced explications of photographs are persuasive and reach important conclusions about cultural changes occurring in Hawaii, which may also apply to other colonized regions."—Journal of American History

"A fascinating, carefully researched, and accessible look at how indigenous Hawaiian stories were appropriated by non-Hawaiian scholars and writers and used to promote a 'legendary Hawai'i' that misrepresents Hawai'i and its indigenous people and their ways of viewing reality. The book is written with passion and commitment and restores to the original stories and their creators/tellers their true mana."—Albert Wendt

"Legendary Hawai'i is insightful, provocative, and thought-provoking. It forcefully illuminates the implications of tourism for a culture, and the ways in which seemingly simple transactions, such as a tourist brochure to bring tourists and dollars to the island, can work in insidious ways to actually undermine the very people it seems to be celebrating."—Journal of Folklore Research

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
Chapter 1. Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 2. Hawai‘i’s Storied Places: Learning from Anne Kapulani Landgraf’s ‘‘Hawaiian View’’ Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
Chapter 3. The Production of Legendary Hawai‘i: Out of Place Stories I Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	60
Chapter 4. Emma Nakuina’s Hawaii: Its People, Their Legends: Out of Place Stories II Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	102
Chapter 5. Stories in Place: Dynamics of Translation and Re-Cognition Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	137
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
Works Cited Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	229

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 248
Illustrations
- Other: 34 illus.
Keywords: Anthropology; Cultural Studies; Folklore; Linguistics; Literature

eBook

Published: June 3, 2011
ISBN: 9780812201178