![]() | And the View from the Shore: Literary Traditions of Hawai''i Subjects: American literature -- Hawaii -- History and criticism; American literature -- Asian American authors -- History and criticism; American literature -- Oceanian American authors -- History and criticism; Oceanian Americans in literature; Asian Americans in; This groundbreaking study of a little-explored branch of American literature both chronicles and reinterprets the variety of patterns found within Hawaii's pastoral and heroic literary traditions, and is unprecedented in its scope and theme. As a literary history, it covers two centuries of Hawaii's culture since the arrival of Captain James Cookin 1778. Its approach is multicultural, representing the spectrum of native Hawaiian, colonial, tourist, and polyethnic local literatures. Explicit historical, social, political, and linguistic context of Hawaii, as well as literary theory, inform Stephen Sumida's analyses and explications of texts, which in turn reinterpret the nonfictional contexts themselves. These "texts" include poems, song lyrics, novels and short fiction, drama and oral traditions that epitomize cultural milieus and sensibilities. Stephen Sumida is professor of American ethnic studies at the University of Washington. |
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