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"ku'ualoha ho'omanawanui artfully performs the cultural and intellectual labor of overturning dominant paradigms and creating new ways of seeing and being an Kanaka 'Oiwi (Indigenous Hawaiian) woman and member of the Lahui (Nation) that draws inspiration from the volcano goddess Pele and her favored youngest siste Hi'iaka, patron of hula. This is an important and exciting book." —Ty P. Kawika Tengan, author of Native Men Remade: Gender and Nation in Contemporary Hawai'i

"An amazingly well-crafted, well-selected, and well-analyzed lei that is, in and of itself, an incredibly powerful narrative destined to become an integral component of the intellectual lei of Kanaka Maoli literature."—Native American and Indigenous Studies Journal



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Papa Kuhikuhi / Table of Contents

Ka Pule Wehe / The Opening Prayer: Kūnihi ka Mauna (Steep Stands the Mountain)Ka Pane / The ResponseʻŌlelo Haʻi Mua / PrefaceNā Mahalo / Acknowledgments

ʻŌlelo Mua / Introduction: Ke Haʻa lā Puna i ka Makani (Puna Dances in the Breeze)

Mokuna / Chapter 1. Mai Kahiki Mai ka Wahine ʻo Pele (From Kahiki Came the Woman, Pele): Historicizing the Pele and Hiʻiaka MoʻoleloMokuna / Chapter 2. ʻO nā Lehua wale i Ka‘ana (The Lehua Blossoms Alone at Kaʻana): Weaving the Moʻokūʻauhau of Oral and Literary TraditionsMokuna / Chapter 3. Lele ʻana ʻo Kaʻena i ka Mālie (Kaʻena Soars Like a Bird in the Calm): Pele and Hiʻiaka Moʻolelo as Intellectual HistoryMokuna / Chapter 4. Ke Lei maila ʻo Kaʻula i ke Kai ē (Kaʻula Is Wreathed by the Sea): Pele and Hiʻiaka Moʻolelo and Kanaka Maoli CultureMokuna / Chapter 5. ʻO ʻOe ia e Wailua Iki (It Is You, Wailua Iki): Mana Wahine in the Pele and Hiʻiaka MoʻoleloMokuna / Chapter 6. Hulihia Ka Mauna (The Mountain Is Overturned by Fire): Weaving a Literary Tradition: The Polytexts and Politics of the Pele and Hiʻiaka MoʻoleloMokuna / Chapter 7. Aloha Kīlauea, ka ʻĀina Aloha (Beloved Is Kīlauea, the Beloved Land): Remembering, Reclaiming, Recovering, and Retelling: Pele and Hi‘iaka Mo‘olelo as Hawaiian Literary Nationalism

Ka Pule Pani / The Closing PrayerʻŌlelo Wehewehe Hope / NotesPapa Wehewehe ‘Ōlelo / GlossaryPapa Kuhikuhi o nā Mea Kūmole ʻia / Works CitedPapa Kuhikuhi Hōʻike / Index

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      Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
      Publication Date: 07/05/2014
      ISBN13: 9780816679225, 978-0816679225
      ISBN10: 0816679223

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      Book Synopsis


      Trade Review
      "ku'ualoha ho'omanawanui artfully performs the cultural and intellectual labor of overturning dominant paradigms and creating new ways of seeing and being an Kanaka 'Oiwi (Indigenous Hawaiian) woman and member of the Lahui (Nation) that draws inspiration from the volcano goddess Pele and her favored youngest siste Hi'iaka, patron of hula. This is an important and exciting book." —Ty P. Kawika Tengan, author of Native Men Remade: Gender and Nation in Contemporary Hawai'i

      "An amazingly well-crafted, well-selected, and well-analyzed lei that is, in and of itself, an incredibly powerful narrative destined to become an integral component of the intellectual lei of Kanaka Maoli literature."—Native American and Indigenous Studies Journal



      Table of Contents

      Papa Kuhikuhi / Table of Contents

      Ka Pule Wehe / The Opening Prayer: Kūnihi ka Mauna (Steep Stands the Mountain)Ka Pane / The ResponseʻŌlelo Haʻi Mua / PrefaceNā Mahalo / Acknowledgments

      ʻŌlelo Mua / Introduction: Ke Haʻa lā Puna i ka Makani (Puna Dances in the Breeze)

      Mokuna / Chapter 1. Mai Kahiki Mai ka Wahine ʻo Pele (From Kahiki Came the Woman, Pele): Historicizing the Pele and Hiʻiaka MoʻoleloMokuna / Chapter 2. ʻO nā Lehua wale i Ka‘ana (The Lehua Blossoms Alone at Kaʻana): Weaving the Moʻokūʻauhau of Oral and Literary TraditionsMokuna / Chapter 3. Lele ʻana ʻo Kaʻena i ka Mālie (Kaʻena Soars Like a Bird in the Calm): Pele and Hiʻiaka Moʻolelo as Intellectual HistoryMokuna / Chapter 4. Ke Lei maila ʻo Kaʻula i ke Kai ē (Kaʻula Is Wreathed by the Sea): Pele and Hiʻiaka Moʻolelo and Kanaka Maoli CultureMokuna / Chapter 5. ʻO ʻOe ia e Wailua Iki (It Is You, Wailua Iki): Mana Wahine in the Pele and Hiʻiaka MoʻoleloMokuna / Chapter 6. Hulihia Ka Mauna (The Mountain Is Overturned by Fire): Weaving a Literary Tradition: The Polytexts and Politics of the Pele and Hiʻiaka MoʻoleloMokuna / Chapter 7. Aloha Kīlauea, ka ʻĀina Aloha (Beloved Is Kīlauea, the Beloved Land): Remembering, Reclaiming, Recovering, and Retelling: Pele and Hi‘iaka Mo‘olelo as Hawaiian Literary Nationalism

      Ka Pule Pani / The Closing PrayerʻŌlelo Wehewehe Hope / NotesPapa Wehewehe ‘Ōlelo / GlossaryPapa Kuhikuhi o nā Mea Kūmole ʻia / Works CitedPapa Kuhikuhi Hōʻike / Index

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