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Legendary Hawai'i and the politics of place : tradition, translation, and tourism /

Hawaiian 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 th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bacchilega, Cristina, 1955-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2007.
Colección:UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Chapter 1. Introduction
  • Chapter 2. Hawai'i's Storied Places: Learning from Anne Kapulani Landgraf's ''Hawaiian View''
  • Chapter 3. The Production of Legendary Hawai'i: Out of Place Stories I
  • Chapter 4. Emma Nakuina's Hawaii: Its People, Their Legends: Out of Place Stories II
  • Chapter 5. Stories in Place: Dynamics of Translation and Re-Cognition
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments