Ki'i papalua: Imagery and colonialism in Hawai'i
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2008
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It aims to locate the blurring of the boundaries between imagery and colonialism in Hawai'i. Through a semiotic reading of images, photographs and advertisements of the Hawaiian hula girl, these galleries will tease out and expose the structures of colonialism which are concealed behind the imagery of the Hawaiian hula girl.
Organized into six galleries, this spatial imaginary serves as cognitive maps for Kanaka Maoli to receive knowledge, awareness, understanding, recognition, comprehension, to re-fresh the mind, and de-colonize the Hawaiian hula girl image from its subjugation.
The journey in this spatial imaginary is a counter-narrative told through a Kanaka Maoli perspective juxtaposed against meta-narratives fueled by western hegemony concerning our people, history, culture and most importantly our identity. Various texualities explain how we have inherited a dominant colonizer's history that does not belong to us but rhetorically erases the realities of our people.
This dissertation takes the reader on a journey through a spatial imaginary of visual and textual galleries. The galleries become spaces, places to discuss, to look, to see, to make meaning, and learn how the image of the Hawaiian hula girl has been and continues to be appropriated, mis-re-presented and commodified.
Organized into six galleries, this spatial imaginary serves as cognitive maps for Kanaka Maoli to receive knowledge, awareness, understanding, recognition, comprehension, to re-fresh the mind, and de-colonize the Hawaiian hula girl image from its subjugation.
The journey in this spatial imaginary is a counter-narrative told through a Kanaka Maoli perspective juxtaposed against meta-narratives fueled by western hegemony concerning our people, history, culture and most importantly our identity. Various texualities explain how we have inherited a dominant colonizer's history that does not belong to us but rhetorically erases the realities of our people.
This dissertation takes the reader on a journey through a spatial imaginary of visual and textual galleries. The galleries become spaces, places to discuss, to look, to see, to make meaning, and learn how the image of the Hawaiian hula girl has been and continues to be appropriated, mis-re-presented and commodified.
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Theses for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (University of Hawaii at Manoa). Political Science; no. 5043
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