200 pp. September 2004
paper, ISBN 978-0-9709597-2-0, $9.95
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Hawaii
culture
biography
history |
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Local Geography: Essays on Multicultural Hawaii
by Dennis Kawaharada
Distributed for Kalamakü Press
Local Geography: Essays on Multicultural Hawai`i takes the reader on a journey through Hawai`i's multiethnic society during the second half of the twentieth century. In eight autobiographical essays, the author looks back at his colonial upbringing and education and his attempt to find a center from which to develop beliefs and values that fit the land, sea, community, and cultures in which he grew up. He examines the tensions among descendants of natives, immigrants, and colonials and the roles that place, race, class, culture, and nation have played in shaping his identity.
Dennis Kawaharada is the author of Storied Landscapes: Hawaiian Literature and Place and editor of Hawaiian Fishing Traditions and Ancient O'ahu, Stories from Thrum and Fornander.
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