Sublime
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Hawaiians' authenticity as an autochthonous people was and is often tied to their relationship to land and ocean.
Adria L. Imada • Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire
As ambassadors of aloha, Hawaiian women have been susceptible to the eroticization of their bodies and the insistent commodification of their aloha.
Adria L. Imada • Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire
Commodified Hawaiian culture—the “luau,” the “hula girl,” and “aloha”—became part of the American vernacular and everyday life.
Adria L. Imada • Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire
filled with the kind of determined cheer that masked a deeper despair.
Ruth Ozeki • The Book of Form and Emptiness: A Novel
Imperial Hospitality
Adria L. Imada • Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire
zelkova tree
Haruki Murakami • Norwegian Wood
Is there any tribe more
Julie Otsuka • The Buddha in the Attic
generic, though gendered, Native.