Defiant indigeneity : the politics of Hawaiian performance /

Defiant indigeneity : the politics of Hawaiian performance /

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Author / Creator:	Teves, Stephanie N., author.
Imprint:	Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2018]
Description:	xviii, 220 pages ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Critical indigeneities Critical indigeneities.
Subject:	Hawaiians -- Ethnic identity. Hawaiians -- Social life and customs. Hawaiians -- Social conditions. Hawaiians -- Government relations. Hawaiians -- Ethnic identity. Hawaiians -- Government relations. Hawaiians -- Social conditions. Hawaiians -- Social life and customs.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11450836

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ISBN:	9781469640549 1469640546 9781469640556 1469640554 9781469640563
Notes:	Included bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	" ... Theorizes Indigeneity as a performative process, challenging the notion that it can be understood in terms of a prescribed set of unchanging cultural signs. ... Indigenous identity is made up of shared community understandings about belonging that is performed and articulated in multiple settings and contexts. For Kanaka Maoli people, Teves shows that Indigeneity is represented and articulated through the idea of "aloha," a concept that is at once the most significant and most misunderstood word in the Hawaiian lexicon"--

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Summary:	"Aloha" is at once the most significant and the most misunderstood word in the Indigenous Hawaiian lexicon. For K& 257;naka Maoli people, the concept of "aloha" is a representation and articulation of their identity, despite its misappropriation and commandeering by non-Native audiences in the form of things like the "hula girl" 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 K&257;naka Maoli from using it to create and empower community and articulate its distinct Indigenous meaning.<br> <br> <br> <br> 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.
Physical Description:	xviii, 220 pages ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:	Included bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9781469640549 1469640546 9781469640556 1469640554 9781469640563