The Power of the Steel-tipped Pen: Reconstructing Native Hawaiian Intellectual History
Noenoe K. Silva
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Hardback. Noenoe K. Silva creates a model indigenous intellectual history of a culture where-using Western standards-none is presumed to exist by examining the work of two lesser-known Hawaiian language writers from the nineteenth-century whose prolific output across many genres created a record of Native Hawaiian cultural history and thought. Num Pages: 288 pages, 5 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; HBJK; HBTB; JFSL9; WQH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
In The Power of the Steel-tipped Pen Noenoe K. Silva reconstructs the indigenous intellectual history of a culture where—using Western standards—none is presumed to exist. Silva examines the work of two lesser-known Hawaiian writers—Joseph Ho‘ona‘auao Kānepu‘u (1824–ca. 1885) and Joseph Moku‘ōhai Poepoe (1852–1913)—to show how the rich intellectual history preserved in Hawaiian-language newspapers is key to understanding Native Hawaiian epistemology and ontology. In their newspaper articles, geographical surveys, biographies, historical narratives, translations, literatures, political and economic analyses, and poetic works, Kānepu‘u and Poepoe created a record of Hawaiian cultural history and thought in order to transmit ancestral knowledge to future generations. ... Read more
In The Power of the Steel-tipped Pen Noenoe K. Silva reconstructs the indigenous intellectual history of a culture where—using Western standards—none is presumed to exist. Silva examines the work of two lesser-known Hawaiian writers—Joseph Ho‘ona‘auao Kānepu‘u (1824–ca. 1885) and Joseph Moku‘ōhai Poepoe (1852–1913)—to show how the rich intellectual history preserved in Hawaiian-language newspapers is key to understanding Native Hawaiian epistemology and ontology. In their newspaper articles, geographical surveys, biographies, historical narratives, translations, literatures, political and economic analyses, and poetic works, Kānepu‘u and Poepoe created a record of Hawaiian cultural history and thought in order to transmit ancestral knowledge to future generations. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822363521
SKU
V9780822363521
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About Noenoe K. Silva
Noenoe K. Silva is Professor of Indigenous Politics at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa and author of Aloha Betrayed: Native Hawaiian Resistance to American Colonialism, also published by Duke University Press. Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o is the author of numerous works of fiction, poetry, plays, and criticism, most recently, Birth of a Dream Weaver.
Reviews for The Power of the Steel-tipped Pen: Reconstructing Native Hawaiian Intellectual History
“A must-read for anyone interested in Hawaiian intellectual history and indigenous studies, this book results from amazing research and work that do not, however, weigh on Silva’s clear and cogent writing.”
Cristina Bacchilega
Journal of American History
"The Power of the Steel-tipped Pen is the most in-depth exploration of Native Hawaiian intellectual history to be published to ... Read more
Cristina Bacchilega
Journal of American History
"The Power of the Steel-tipped Pen is the most in-depth exploration of Native Hawaiian intellectual history to be published to ... Read more