The Power of the Steel-tipped Pen

Reconstructing Native Hawaiian Intellectual History

Noenoe K. Silva (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

288 Seiten

2017
Duke University Press (Verlag)
9780822363521 (ISBN)

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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.

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. Celebrating indigenous intellectual agency in the midst of US imperialism, The Power of the Steel-tipped Pen is a call for the further restoration of native Hawaiian intellectual history to help ground contemporary Hawaiian thought, culture, and governance.

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.

Foreword / Ngũgī wa Thiong‘o ix
Acknowlegments xi
"Ke Au Hawai’i" by Larry Kauanoe Kimura xiii
Introduction 1
Part I. Joseph Ho‘ona‘auao Kānepu‘u
1. Joseph Ho‘ona`auao Kānepu‘u 21
2. Selected Literary Works of Joseph Kānepu‘u 53
3. Kanaka Geography and Aloha ‘Āina 82
Part II. Joseph Moku‘ōhai Poepoe
4. Joseph Moku‘ōhai Poepoe 105
5. Singing (to) the ‘Āina 150
6. Mo‘olelo Hawai‘i Kahiko 174
Conclusion 211
Appendix A: Kānepu‘u"s Selected Bibliography 215
Appendix B: Poepoe Selected Bibliography 217
Notes 221
Glossary 241
Bibliography 247
Index 263

Erscheinungsdatum	14.05.2017
Vorwort	Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
Zusatzinfo	5 illustrations
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	544 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Regional- / Landesgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-13	9780822363521 / 9780822363521
Zustand	Neuware