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Legendary Hawai'i and the Politics of Place : Tradition, Translation, and Tourism by Bacchilega, Cristina is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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<p>Hawaiian legends figure greatly in the image of tropical paradise that has come to represent Hawai'i in popular imagination. But what are we buying into when we read these stories as texts in English-language translations? Cristina Bacchilega poses this question in her examination of the way these stories have been adapted to produce a legendary Hawai'i primarily for non-Hawaiian readers or other audiences.With an understanding of tradition that foregrounds history and change, Bacchilega examines how, following the 1898 annexation of Hawai'i by the United States, the publication of Hawaiian legends in English delegitimized indigenous narratives and traditions and at the same time constructed them as representative of Hawaiian culture. Hawaiian mo'olelo were translated in popular and scholarly English-language publications to market a new cultural product: a space constructed primarily for Euro-Americans as something simultaneously exotic and primitive and beautiful and welcoming. To analyze this representation of Hawaiian traditions, place, and genre, Bacchilega focuses on translation across languages, cultures, and media; on photography, as the technology that contributed to th
Who reads Legendary Hawai'i and the Politics of Place : Tradition, Translation, and Tourism?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Bacchilega, Cristina
- Publisher
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2007.
- Published
- 2007
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9786613211422
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Science, Anthropology, History