{"product_id":"legendary-hawaii-and-the-politics-of-place-tradition-translation-and-tourism-paperback-softback-9780812222500","title":"Legendary Hawai'i and the Politics of Place; Tradition, Translation, and Tourism (Paperback \/ softback) 9780812222500","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eLegendary Hawai'i and the Politics of Place\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eTradition, Translation, and Tourism\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eCristina Bacchilega (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780812222500\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 24 April 2013\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e248 pages, 34 illus.\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eLegendary Hawai'i\u003c\/i\u003e is insightful, provocative, and thought-provoking. It forcefully illuminates the implications of tourism for a culture, and the ways in which seemingly simple transactions, such as a tourist brochure to bring tourists and dollars to the island, can work in insidious ways to actually undermine the very people it seems to be celebrating.\" (\u003ci\u003eJournal of Folklore Research\u003c\/i\u003e) \"\u003ci\u003eLegendary Hawai'i and the Politics of Place\u003c\/i\u003e is an examination of cultural change through textual analysis, and within those boundaries it accomplishes quite a bit. . . . Bacchilega's close reading of texts and her nuanced explications of photographs are persuasive and reach important conclusions about cultural changes occurring in Hawaii, which may also apply to other colonized regions.\" (\u003ci\u003eJournal of American History\u003c\/i\u003e) \"A work of vigilant scholarship and elegant exposition that unsettles long-taken-for-granted genres, modes of representation, narrative codes and ascribed roles.\" (\u003ci\u003eHawaiian Journal of History\u003c\/i\u003e) \"A fascinating, carefully researched, and accessible look at how indigenous Hawaiian stories were appropriated by non-Hawaiian scholars and writers and used to promote a 'legendary Hawai'i' that misrepresents Hawai'i and its indigenous people and their ways of viewing reality. The book is written with passion and commitment and restores to the original stories and their creators\/tellers their true \u003ci\u003emana\u003c\/i\u003e.\" (Albert Wendt)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eHawaiian legends figure greatly in 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? Cristina Bacchilega poses this question in her examination of the way these stories have been adapted to produce a legendary Hawai'i primarily for non-Hawaiian readers or other audiences.\u003cbr\u003e With an understanding of tradition that foregrounds history and change, Bacchilega examines how, following the 1898 annexation of Hawai'i by the United States, the publication of Hawaiian legends in English delegitimized indigenous narratives and traditions and at the same time constructed them as representative of Hawaiian culture. Hawaiian \u003ci\u003emo'olelo\u003c\/i\u003e were translated in popular and scholarly English-language publications to market a new cultural product: a space constructed primarily for Euro-Americans as something simultaneously exotic and primitive and beautiful and welcoming. To analyze this representation of Hawaiian traditions, place, and genre, Bacchilega focuses on translation across languages, cultures, and media; on photography, as the technology that contributed to the visual formation of a westernized image of Hawai'i; and on tourism as determining postannexation economic and ideological machinery.\u003cbr\u003e In a book with interdisciplinary appeal, Bacchilega demonstrates both how the myth of legendary Hawai'i emerged and how this vision can be unmade and reimagined.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e 1. Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 2. Hawai'i's Storied Places: Learning from Anne Kapulani Landgraf's ''Hawaiian View'\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Production of Legendary Hawai'i: Out of Place Stories I\u003cbr\u003e 4. Emma Nakuina's Hawaii: Its People, Their Legends: Out of Place Stories II\u003cbr\u003e 5. Stories in Place: Dynamics of Translation and Re-Cognition\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Works Cited\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52555688378648,"sku":"9780812222500","price":24.37,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/legendary-hawaii-and-the-politics-of-place-tradition-translation-and-tourism-paperback-softback-9780812222500","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}