Punaʻaikoaʻe: Moʻo in Tradition and in Translation--What do moʻo have to do with politics of translation, genre, and the silencing of the Hawaiian voice?
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Indigenous Literatures Abstract:
What happens when oral traditions making the transition into literature are divested of their historical-social-religious context in translation and classified as legend, myth, or folklore? This paper uses the tradition of Punaʻaikoaʻe to open a discourse engendered by these questions.
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