Finding Meaning - Kaona and Contemporary Hawaiian Literature

Winner of the Native American Literature Symposium's Beatrice Medicine Award for Published Monograph.

The first extensive study of contemporary Hawaiian literature, Finding Meaning examines kaona, the practice of hiding and finding meaning, for its profound connectivity. Through kaona, author Brandy Nalani McDougall affirms the tremendous power of Indigenous stories and genealogies to give lasting meaning to decolonization movements.

About the author

Brandy Nalani McDougall is an assistant professor specializing in Indigenous studies in the American Studies Department at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. She is the co-editor of Huihui: Navigating Art and Literature in the Pacific and Home(is)lands: New Writing and Art from Hawai'i and Guåhan and the author of a poetry collection, The Salt-Wind / Ka Makani Paakai.

Product details

• Authors: Brandy N?lani McDougall, Brandy Nalani McDougall
• Publisher: The University of Arizona Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9780816537945
• ISBN: 978-0-8165-3794-5
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 149 mm x 225 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 320 g
• Series: Critical Issues in Indigenous; Critical Issues in Indigenous Studies; Critical Issues in Indigenous; Critical Issues in Indigenous Studies
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies