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Books have to be read (worse luck, for it takes a long time); it is the only way of discovering what they contain. Table of Contents Preface vii A few savage tribes eat them, but reading is the only method of assimilation revealed to the West. 1. The Map’s Legend: Introduction 1 1.1 The Need for Another Map 4 1.2 Issues of Naming and Claiming 7 2. Theories and Methods: Navigational Instruments 13 2.1 Cultural Studies 15 2.2 Postcolonialism 17 2.2.1 Hybridization 21 2.2.2 Exile / Migration 23 2.2.3 Regionalism 25 2.3 Postmodernism 28 2.4 Another “Imaginary Homeland”: Summary 32 3. Mirrors and Looking Glasses: Areas of Comparison 33 3.1 From Atlantic to Pacific: The Caribbean and Hawai’i 34 Edward Morgan Forster – Aspects of the Novel 1 3.2 The Big Picture: Hawai’i as Part of the Pacific Basin / The Idea of Oceania 39 3.3 The Mainland Relatives: Asian American Writing 49 4. The Birth of a Contemporary Local Literature 62 4.1 The University’s Role and Its Relevant Institutions 63 4.2 The Old Canon 69 4.3 The “Hawaiian Renaissance” 76 4.4 “Talk Story” and Bamboo Ridge 79 4.5 And the View from the Shore: Stephen Sumida’s Pioneering Work 84 5. Literature as Exploration of Local Identity 89 5.1 History 91 5.1.1 A Brief Sketch of Hawaii’s History 93 5.1.2 Pearl Harbor and Beyond: Historical Novels and Short Fiction 96 5.1.3 Enacting the Past: Local Historical Drama 121 1 E.M. Forster, Aspects of the Novel, London 2000: 30-1. v
5.1.4 Personal History: Poetry and Fiction 126 5.2 Ethnicity 140 5.2.1 What Is a Native Hawaiian? 141 5.2.2 Sovereignty 151 5.2.3 The Dilemma of Being Haole 155 5.2.4 Ethnic Asian Identities 158 5.2.5 The Politics of Ethnic Literature: Lois-Ann Yamanaka and the Question of Representation 164 5.2.6 Being of Mixed Ancestry: Hapa 174 5.3 Language 180 5.3.1 Hawaiian, English, and “Pidgin” 180 5.3.2 Pidgin in Literature: The Canon 185 5.3.3 “Da Pidgin Guerilla” and Other Contemporary Hawaiian Creole English Writers 189 5.3.4 The Hawaiian Language in Local Literature 198 5.3.5 Other Literary Languages: Some Examples 203 5.4 Place 205 5.4.1 Reclaiming Hawaiian Space 207 5.4.2 Kaho’olawe 210 5.4.3 “Local Sensibilities” 214 5.4.4 Community 225 5.4.5 “Blue Skin” or “Speed of Darkness”: The Ocean as Local Space 232 6. Center Stage: Conclusions on Hawaii’s Location on the Literary Map 241 7. Outlook: Future Tasks 244 8. Bibliography 246 Appendix I: Hawaiian History in Dates 259 Appendix II: Island Maps 264 vi
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At no time in my undergraduate Engl
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epresentativeness, a cautioning aga
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the issei. Few had gone against the
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Yogi names David Mura, Cynthia Kado
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accepted ethnicities. 191 The book
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Cobb (Keller), Gary Pak, and Cathy
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[…] I learned to make my mind lar
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chapter will illustrate. After the
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academic departments began offering
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American terms. Recalling a rhetori
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No need to hear your voice when I c
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In the mid-19 th century, the first
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His admiration of the physical abil
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to come home at dusk, waiting with
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chant and hula performances, kahuna
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Demographically, Japanese Hawaiians
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at schools. 255 Such pervasive draw
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half-jokingly he asked me, ‘Was t
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Michener’s claim that “these Or
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As may be expected, Sumida’s past
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various aspects that And the View f
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accumulation of several aspects in
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writers, exhibiting a neo-colonial
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without divinity to sustain them, h
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contract laborers, Stone of Kannon
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different groups anxiously saw to i
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into a complex and unfair world is
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advice as spells and protection rit
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hiding one’s true self, the ambig
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Gary Pak is another writer of Korea
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their lives and reminiscing on hers
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Fuckin’ Kahaluu used to be mean.
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future that is sharply contrasted b
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understands some of the inequities
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make a major mainland publishing sp
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joining their forebears. Jess will
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printed nothing but poems. Sentimen
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American Samoa to maintain his inte
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adulthood and history. […] In bot
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You find you need China: your one f
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“and disappears”). One of the f
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In general, these poems reach beyon
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In “Tutu on da Curb,” the old l
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similarly reduced to gestures, look
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see that it doesn’t matter what f
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I thought of weather like a sailor
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the rubric “Asian Pacific America
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The texts collected in ‘Oiwi deal
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in the two ‘Oiwi issues can be ex
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had no rival in its casting of ligh
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Through a series of improvisational
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In colonial situations, resistance
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a homogeneous society. Their report
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I had been here nearly thirty years
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While this may be true, this statem
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tradition that is our own. […] we
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“Juk,” criticizing its lost nos
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You come with me In your dark brood
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the Hawaiian situation and as an ob
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plantation hierarchy are especially
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argues: “As Asian American writer
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Grace, easy. Joseph, easier. Blue-c
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other sensitive readers have been r
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In 1999, Marie Hara and Nora Okja K
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Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Filip
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mean, Asian, sistah? You Chinee, o
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Cantonese words. 465 In the 1820s,
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Standard system.” 472 In any case
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In spite of its widespread appeal i
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they invite the reader to sound out
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poetry than the original: “What c
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As mentioned in the history chapter
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In Rodney Morales’ collection The
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da point.” The uncompromising Pid
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infinite possibilities as to wot
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the Hawaiian language movement affe
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Although there might be literal tra
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The Hawaiian language is thus firml
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5.4 Place I would not have traded p
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5.4.1 Reclaiming Hawaiian Space We
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turn of the caterpillar track wrenc
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matters Hawaiian. “We are native
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A far cry from Kahoolawe, an experi
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As Gayle Sato argues in her Amerasi
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Remembering his former failure to u
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Grant published such ‘factional
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It is still here, just like Hawai
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Mrs. Zane can speak several dialect
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flowers glowing like stars in the g
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While Native Hawaiian nationalists
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of an area that was to be cleared f
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outlook: “This is all, of course,
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Old Man and the Sea in their home t
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The most violent act James Cook cou
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slashed hand as if it were “somet
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unfolding, I wanted to swim toward
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In such passages, Davenport manages
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to our young Pacific writers: that
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though in a Local (Asian/native) co
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Balaz, Joe. Electric Laulau. CD. Ho
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Dissertation: University of Michiga
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Identity in the New Pacific. Pacifi
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McGaw, Martha Mary, Sister. Stevens
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the Rest of the World. London: Rout
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Trask, Haunani-Kay. From a Native D
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Appendix I: Hawaiian History in Dat
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1863: Kamehameha IV dies and is suc
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1924: The U.S. Congress passes Hawa
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