The True Story of Kaluaikoolau

The True Story of Kaluaikoolau
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Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Total Pages : 168
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015054127900
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Rating : 4/5 (00 Downloads)

Synopsis The True Story of Kaluaikoolau by : Piilani Kaluaikoolau

The remote valley had become a refuge for Hawaiians afflicted with leprosy - rather than endure forced separation from their loved ones, a few dozen men and women managed to avoid capture and live in hiding with the help of friends and family. In June 1893 Koolau shot and killed a sheriff and two Provisional Government soldiers who had been sent to arrest him. He vowed never to be taken alive and became a powerful symbol of resistance for many Hawaiians in the years following the overthrow of Queen Liliuokalani.

The Folding Cliffs

The Folding Cliffs
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Publisher : Knopf
Total Pages : 353
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ISBN-10 : 9780375701511
ISBN-13 : 0375701516
Rating : 4/5 (11 Downloads)

Synopsis The Folding Cliffs by : W. S. Merwin

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author and “one of the greatest poets of our age … the Thoreau of our era” (Edward Hirsch) comes a thrilling story, in verse, of nineteenth-century Hawaii. Here is the story of an attempt by the government to seize and constrain possible victims of leprosy and the determination of one small family not to be taken. A tale of the perils and glories of their flight into the wilds of the island of Kauai, pursued by a gunboat full of soldiers. A brilliant capturing—inspired by the poet's respect for the people of these islands—of their life, their history, the gods and goddesses of their mythic past. A somber revelation of the wrecking of their culture through the exploitative incursions of Europeans and Americans. An epic narrative that enthralls with the grandeur of its language and of its vision.

The Colony

The Colony
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 433
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ISBN-10 : 9781416551928
ISBN-13 : 1416551921
Rating : 4/5 (28 Downloads)

Synopsis The Colony by : John Tayman

In the bestselling tradition of In the Heart of the Sea, The Colony, “an impressively researched” (Rocky Mountain News) account of the history of America’s only leper colony located on the Hawaiian island of Molokai, is “an utterly engrossing look at a heartbreaking chapter” (Booklist) in American history and a moving tale of the extraordinary people who endured it. Beginning in 1866 and continuing for over a century, more than eight thousand people suspected of having leprosy were forcibly exiled to the Hawaiian island of Molokai -- the longest and deadliest instance of medical segregation in American history. Torn from their homes and families, these men, women, and children were loaded into shipboard cattle stalls and abandoned in a lawless place where brutality held sway. Many did not have leprosy, and many who did were not contagious, yet all were ensnared in a shared nightmare. Here, for the first time, John Tayman reveals the complete history of the Molokai settlement and its unforgettable inhabitants. It's an epic of ruthless manhunts, thrilling escapes, bizarre medical experiments, and tragic, irreversible error. Carefully researched and masterfully told, The Colony is a searing tale of individual bravery and extraordinary survival, and stands as a testament to the power of faith, compassion, and the human spirit.

Jack London's Koolau the Leper

Jack London's Koolau the Leper
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Publisher : Caliber Comics
Total Pages : 35
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ISBN-10 : 9781681005843
ISBN-13 : 1681005840
Rating : 4/5 (43 Downloads)

Synopsis Jack London's Koolau the Leper by : Jack London

At the dawn of the 20th century, Jack London was considered one of the first literary writing pioneers in the rapidly growing world of magazine fiction. Having written numerous novels, short stories, poems and essays, he became a well-known celebrity and world-wide house hold name. Even today, Jack London’s popular written works find a large reader audience and his stories have been adapted into feature films and television programs. Presented here is one of Jack London's classic tales of the South Pacific as one man refuses to give up any more of his possessions even though it appears that he's lost everything already. Illustrated by comic veteran Charles Yates. A Caliber Comics release.

The Wind Gourd of Laʻamaomao

The Wind Gourd of Laʻamaomao
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Publisher : Dennis Kawaharada
Total Pages : 152
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ISBN-10 : IND:30000102053729
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Rating : 4/5 (29 Downloads)

Synopsis The Wind Gourd of Laʻamaomao by : Moses K. Nakuina

Molokai

Molokai
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Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Total Pages : 548
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ISBN-10 : 082480287X
ISBN-13 : 9780824802875
Rating : 4/5 (7X Downloads)

Synopsis Molokai by : O. A. Bushnell

Father Damien, Dr. Newman, and a group of other courageous and selfless people struggle to offer hope and dignity to the inhabitants of a late-nineteenth-century leprosy colony.

All I Asking for Is My Body

All I Asking for Is My Body
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Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Total Pages : 122
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ISBN-10 : 0824811720
ISBN-13 : 9780824811723
Rating : 4/5 (20 Downloads)

Synopsis All I Asking for Is My Body by : Milton Murayama

From the Afterword by Franklin S. Odo: The most important feature of Milton Murayama's brilliant All I Asking for Is My Body is the quality of the storytelling. It deserves thorough discussion and criticism among literary professionals and students. The work has a further genius, however, in its evocation of several major topics in modern Hawaiian history, specifically during the 1930s, the decade before United States involvement in World War II. I suggest that Murayama’s novel provides us with valuable insights into the worlds of language, sugar plantation history, and the second-generation Japanese Americans, the nisei. . . . Critic Rob Wilson noted: “Part of the accomplishment of the novel is that the language ranges from the vernacular to the literate and standard, and so reflects the cultural and linguistic diversity of Hawaii.” In the novel, Murayama uses standard English and pidgin. In real life, the narrator Kiyo explains, “we spoke four languages: good English in school, pidgin English among ourselves, good or pidgin Japanese to our parents and the other old folks.” The wonder is that Murayama emerged using any one of the languages well. For most, that experience proved to be an insuperable barrier to good creative writing. . . . All I Asking for Is My Body is the most compelling work done on the Hawaii nisei experience. Murayama understood his theme to be “the Japanese family system vs. individualism, the plantation system vs. individualism. And so the environments of the family and the plantation are inseparable from the theme.” Fortunately for us as readers, however, he understood that the story was the key ingredient; that anything less would simply add to the sociological study of the plantation and the Japanese family in Hawaii.

Leaves of the Banyan Tree

Leaves of the Banyan Tree
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Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Total Pages : 428
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ISBN-10 : 082481584X
ISBN-13 : 9780824815844
Rating : 4/5 (4X Downloads)

Synopsis Leaves of the Banyan Tree by : Albert Wendt

An epic spanning three generations, Leaves of the Banyan Tree tells the story of a family and community in Western Samoa, exploring on a grand scale such universal themes as greed, corruption, colonialism, exploitation, and revenge. Winner of the 1980 New Zealand Wattie Book of the Year Award, it is considered a classic work of Pacific literature.

Language Contact in the Early Colonial Pacific

Language Contact in the Early Colonial Pacific
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 353
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ISBN-10 : 9781107015104
ISBN-13 : 1107015103
Rating : 4/5 (04 Downloads)

Synopsis Language Contact in the Early Colonial Pacific by : Emanuel J. Drechsel

This volume presents a historical-sociolinguistic description and analysis of Maritime Polynesian Pidgin. It offers linguistic and sociohistorical substantiation for a regional Eastern Polynesian-based pidgin, and challenges conventional Eurocentric assumptions about early colonial contact in the eastern Pacific by arguing that Maritime Polynesian Pidgin preceded the introduction of Pidgin English by as much as a century. Emanuel J. Drechsel not only opens up new methodological avenues for historical-sociolinguistic research in Oceania by a combination of philology and ethnohistory, but also gives greater recognition to Pacific Islanders in early contact between cultures. Students and researchers working on language contact, language typology, historical linguistics and sociolinguistics will want to read this book. It redefines our understanding of how Europeans and Americans interacted with Pacific Islanders in Eastern Polynesia during early encounters and offers an alternative model of language contact.

Written in the Sky

Written in the Sky
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 162
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ISBN-10 : 1566477239
ISBN-13 : 9781566477239
Rating : 4/5 (39 Downloads)

Synopsis Written in the Sky by : Matthew Kaopio