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Book SynopsisLeanne Trapedo Sims examines the experiences of incarcerated Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander women at the Women's Community Correctional Center, the only women's prison in the state of Hawaii.
Trade Review“Well written and nicely theorized,
Reckoning with Restorative Justice is an important project based on rigorous research, which adopts an intersectional lens in interrogating social justice failures in the contemporary carceral setting in Hawai‘i. As an innovative exploration of Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander women’s writing that has been neglected, this is original work that is much needed.” -- J. Kehaulani Kauanui, author of * Paradoxes of Hawaiian Sovereignty: Land, Sex, and the Colonial Politics of State Nationalism *
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Reckoning with Restorative Justice is a complex and nuanced investigation of the tensions inherent in writing within a carceral setting and a reminder that even embedded within this complexity of challenges, the act of storytelling offers an intimate pathway to both personal insight and collective community witnessing as well as a significant step on a journey toward healing.” -- Lynden Harris, editor of * Right Here, Right Now: Life Stories from America’s Death Row *
Table of ContentsAbbreviations ix
A Note on the Text xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction: The American Gulag and Indigenous Incarceration in Hawai‘i 1
1. Pedagogy and Process 33
2. “Home”: Trauma and Desire 58
3. The Stage Away from the Page 79
4. Love Letters 112
5. Postrelease and Affective Writers 139
Epilogue: Palliative Praxis or Pathways to Transformation? 153
Appendix 165
Notes 167
Bibliography 197
Index 209
