The power of the steel-tipped pen : reconstructing native Hawaiian intellectual history
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The power of the steel-tipped pen : reconstructing native Hawaiian intellectual history
Duke University Press, 2017
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-261) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In The Power of the Steel-tipped Pen Noenoe K. Silva reconstructs the indigenous intellectual history of a culture where-using Western standards-none is presumed to exist. Silva examines the work of two lesser-known Hawaiian writers-Joseph Ho'ona'auao Kanepu'u (1824-ca. 1885) and Joseph Moku'ohai Poepoe (1852-1913)-to show how the rich intellectual history preserved in Hawaiian-language newspapers is key to understanding Native Hawaiian epistemology and ontology. In their newspaper articles, geographical surveys, biographies, historical narratives, translations, literatures, political and economic analyses, and poetic works, Kanepu'u and Poepoe created a record of Hawaiian cultural history and thought in order to transmit ancestral knowledge to future generations. Celebrating indigenous intellectual agency in the midst of US imperialism, The Power of the Steel-tipped Pen is a call for the further restoration of native Hawaiian intellectual history to help ground contemporary Hawaiian thought, culture, and governance.
Table of Contents
Foreword / Ngugi wa Thiong'o ix
Acknowlegments xi
"Ke Au Hawai'i" by Larry Kauanoe Kimura xiii
Introduction 1
Part I. Joseph Ho'ona'auao Kanepu'u
1. Joseph Ho'ona`auao Kanepu'u 21
2. Selected Literary Works of Joseph Kanepu'u 53
3. Kanaka Geography and Aloha 'Aina 82
Part II. Joseph Moku'ohai Poepoe
4. Joseph Moku'ohai Poepoe 105
5. Singing (to) the 'Aina 150
6. Mo'olelo Hawai'i Kahiko 174
Conclusion 211
Appendix A: Kanepu'u"s Selected Bibliography 215
Appendix B: Poepoe Selected Bibliography 217
Notes 221
Glossary 241
Bibliography 247
Index 263
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