Defiant Indigeneity
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Aloha Spirit Law
Aloha State
alternative indigeneities
Author_Stephanie Nohelani Teves
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Contemporary Hawaiian music
defiant Indigeneity
Drag in Hawai'i
Drag in the Pacific
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Gender in Hawaiian culture
Hawaiian cultural politics
Hawaiian hip-hop
Hawaiian performance
Hawaiian sexuality
Hawaiian urban indigeneity
Indigeneity and performance
Indigenous art and performance
indigenous performativity
LGBT in the Pacific
native feminism
pacific island performance
Princess Ka'iulani
Queer indigeneity
queer Pacific
settler-colonialism Hawai'i
subculture in Hawai'i: Hawaiian feminism
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- ISBN 9781469640556
- Weight: 525g
- Dimensions: 155 x 233mm
- Publication Date: 09 Apr 2018
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Aloha"" is at once the most significant and the most misunderstood word in the Indigenous Hawaiian lexicon. For Kanaka 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 Kanaka Maoli from using it to create and empower community and articulate its distinct Indigenous meaning.
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.
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.
Stephanie Nohelani Teves is assistant professor of ethnic studies and women's, gender, and sexuality studies at the University of Oregon.
