By the s, Hawaiian culture, particularly its music and hula, had enormous promotional value. In the s, thousands of U.
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Yet, as Adria L. Imada shows, Hawaiians also used hula as a means of cultural survival and countercolonial political praxis. In Aloha America , Imada focuses on the years between the s and the s, examining little-known performances and films before turning to the present-day reappropriation of hula by the Hawaiian self-determination movement.
Imada shows how U. By foregrounding the eroticized bodies of Hawaiian women hula dancers, these elites created what Imada calls an 'imagined intimacy' between the U.
The sexualized images of Hawaiian women helped to occlude resistance to U. At the same time, hula served as a countercolonial archive of collective Hawaiian memory, preserving preconquest histories, epistemologies, and ontologies. Imada conceives of Hawaiian hula as constitutive of colonial relations involving collaboration and resistance.
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Aloha America: Hula Circuits Through the U.S. Empire
This book really got me thinking about the ways that hula dancers exploit their exploiters and how Hawaiians used the money and ability to travel to fuel their own sovereignty and anti-annexation beliefs and continue to do so. The politics of hula and being Native Hawaiian are messy, and this book does an excellent job of explaining colonization, militourism, and how Hawaiians survived. Apr 12, Duke Press added it Shelves: Fascinating photographs of the dancers—with careful commentary on poses and dress—illuminate the mannerisms and views of the performers.
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Indeed, Imada acknowledges colonial government.
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It provides a useful model Native Hawaiian decolonization movements, for interdisciplinary research into indigenous detailing how hula is being used as a form artistic practices, underscoring both the agency of protest in relation to land and sovereignty of its interlocutors and the multifaceted nature issues. Her analysis of photography connect. The Hawaiian kingdom on the deeply political implications.
Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire
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