Usable Pasts and Imperial Futures: Re-Visioning Hawai‘i’s Literatures and Literary Histories, 1945-1959
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Post-Colonial Literature I Abstract:
This paper examines the ways postwar U.S. writers instrumentalized Hawai‘i’s literatures to justify American imperialism. Using the popular anthology A Hawaiian Reader, I argue that postwar U.S. narratives about Hawai‘i served to maintain American imperialism in a rapidly decolonizing world.
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