Defiant Indigeneity - The Politics of Hawaiian Performance (Hardcover)

Aloha"" is at once the most significant and the most misunderstood word in the Indigenous Hawaiian lexicon. For Kanaka Maoli people, the concept of ""aloha"" is a representation and articulation of their identity, despite its misappropriation and commandeering by non-Native audiences in the form of things like the ""hula girl"" of popular culture. Considering the way aloha is embodied, performed, and interpreted in Native Hawaiian literature, music, plays, dance, drag performance, and even ghost tours from the twentieth century to the present, Stephanie Nohelani Teves shows that misunderstanding of the concept by non-Native audiences has not prevented the Kanaka Maoli from using it to create and empower community and articulate its distinct Indigenous meaning. While Native Hawaiian artists, activists, scholars, and other performers have labored to educate diverse publics about the complexity of Indigenous Hawaiian identity, ongoing acts of violence against Indigenous communities have undermined these efforts. In this multidisciplinary work, Teves argues that Indigenous peoples must continue to embrace the performance of their identities in the face of this violence in order to challenge settler-colonialism and its efforts to contain and commodify Hawaiian Indigeneity.

General

Imprint:	The University of North Carolina Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Critical Indigeneities
Release date:	March 2018
Authors:	Stephanie Nohelani Teves
Dimensions:	235 x 155mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	240
ISBN-13:	978-1-4696-4054-9
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > General Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Theatre, drama > General Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > Social & cultural anthropology > General Books > History > American history > General
LSN:	1-4696-4054-6
Barcode:	9781469640549

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