Displacing Natives: The Rhetorical Production of Hawai'i

by Wood

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780742577176
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	05/27/1999
Series:	Pacific Formations: Global Relations in Asian and Pacific Perspectives
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	240
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Houston Wood spent many years as a macadamia nut farmer on the island of Hawaii. He is the coauthor of The Reality of Ethnomethodology and now teaches English at Hawaii Pacific University.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Orientation: Recovering Hawaiian Winds
Chapter 2 From Conquest to Anti-Conquest
Chapter 3 The Violent Rhetoric of Names
Chapter 4 Captain James Cook, Rhetorician
Chapter 5 The Kama'aina Anti-Conquest
Chapter 6 Disorientation: Unwritable Knowledge
Chapter 7 Displacing Three Hawaiian Places
Chapter 8 Displacing Pele: Hawai'i's Volcanoes in a Contact Zone
Chapter 9 Echo Tourism: The Narrative of Nostalgia in Waikiki
Chapter 10 Safe Savagery: Hollywood's Hawai'i
Chapter 11 Reorientation: New Histories, New Hopes
Chapter 12 Polyrhetoric as Critical Traditionalismism
Chapter 13 Kaho'olawe in Polyrhetoric and Monorhetoric
Chapter 14 Hawai'i in Cyberspace
Chapter 15 Coda
Chapter 16 Filmography