Legendary Hawai'i and the politics of place
Subtitle: tradition, translation, and tourism
By: Cristina Bacchilega
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9780812239751
Subjects: Legends -- Hawaii -- History and criticism; Oral tradition -- Hawaii -- History and criticism; Folk literature -- Hawaii -- History and criticism; Hawaiians -- Folklore; Politics and culture -- Hawaii; Culture and tourism -- Hawaii; Heritage tourism -- Hawaii; Public opinion -- Hawaii; Hawaii -- Colonization; Hawaii -- Folklore; Hawaii -- Foreign public opinion
Description: "Hawaiian legends figure greatly into 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? This is the question that Cristina Bacchilega poses in her examination of the way stories labeled Hawaiian "legends" have been adapted to produce a legendary Hawai'i primarily for non-Hawaiian readers or audiences."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [203] - 219) and index
Table of contents: title: Hawai'i's storied places : learning from Anne Kapulani Landgraf's "Hawaiian view"; title: The production of Legendary Hawai'i : out of place stories I; title: Emma Nakuina's Hawaii : its people, their legends : out of place stories II; title: Stories in place : dynamics of translation and re-cognition