Defiant Indigeneity (eBook)

The Politics of Hawaiian Performance

Stephanie Nohelani Teves (Autor)

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2018
240 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-4056-3 (ISBN)

Infos

"e;Aloha"e; is at once the most significant and the most misunderstood word in the Indigenous Hawaiian lexicon. For Knaka Maoli people, the concept of "e;aloha"e; is a representation and articulation of their identity, despite its misappropriation and commandeering by non-Native audiences in the form of things like the "e;hula girl"e; of popular culture. Considering the way aloha is embodied, performed, and interpreted in Native Hawaiian literature, music, plays, dance, drag performance, and even ghost tours from the twentieth century to the present, Stephanie Nohelani Teves shows that misunderstanding of the concept by non-Native audiences has not prevented the Knaka Maoli from using it to create and empower community and articulate its distinct Indigenous meaning.While Native Hawaiian artists, activists, scholars, and other performers have labored to educate diverse publics about the complexity of Indigenous Hawaiian identity, ongoing acts of violence against Indigenous communities have undermined these efforts. In this multidisciplinary work, Teves argues that Indigenous peoples must continue to embrace the performance of their identities in the face of this violence in order to challenge settler-colonialism and its efforts to contain and commodify Hawaiian Indigeneity.

Autor

Stephanie Nohelani Teves is assistant professor of ethnic studies and women's, gender, and sexuality studies at the University of Oregon.

Produkt-Details

• Reihe/Serie: Critical Indigeneities
• Reihe/Serie: Critical Indigeneities
• Zusatzinfo: 6 halftones, notes, bibl., index
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Aloha Spirit Law • Aloha State • alternative indigeneities • Contemporary Hawaiian music • defiant Indigeneity • Drag in Hawai’i • Drag in the Pacific • Gender in Hawaiian culture • Hawaiian cultural politics • Hawaiian hip-hop • Hawaiian performance • Hawaiian sexuality • Hawaiian urban indigeneity • Indigeneity and performance • Indigenous art and performance, Queer indigeneity • indigenous performativity • LGBT in the Pacific • native feminism • pacific island performance • Princess Ka’iulani • queer Pacific • settler-colonialism Hawai’i • subculture in Hawai’i: Hawaiian feminism
• ISBN-10: 1-4696-4056-2 / 1469640562
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-4056-3 / 9781469640563