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10%OFFCristina Bacchilega - Legendary Hawai´i and the Politics of Place: Tradition, Translation, and Tourism - 9780812222500 - V9780812222500
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Legendary Hawai´i and the Politics of Place: Tradition, Translation, and Tourism

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Description for Legendary Hawai´i and the Politics of Place: Tradition, Translation, and Tourism Paperback. In a book with interdisciplinary appeal, Bacchilega demonstrates both how the myth of legendary Hawai'i emerged and how this vision can be unmade and reimagined. Num Pages: 248 pages, 34 illus. BIC Classification: JFHF. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 340.

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 ... Read more

In a book with interdisciplinary appeal, Bacchilega demonstrates both how the myth of legendary Hawai'i emerged and how this vision can be unmade and reimagined.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780812222500
SKU
V9780812222500
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About Cristina Bacchilega
Cristina Bacchilega is Professor of English at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. She is the author of Postmodern Fairy Tales: Gender and Narrative Strategies, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

Reviews for Legendary Hawai´i and the Politics of Place: Tradition, Translation, and Tourism
"Legendary Hawai'i is insightful, provocative, and thought-provoking. It forcefully illuminates the implications of tourism for a culture, and the ways in which seemingly simple transactions, such as a tourist brochure to bring tourists and dollars to the island, can work in insidious ways to actually undermine the very people it seems to be celebrating."—Journal of Folklore Research "Legendary Hawai'i and ... Read more

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