Voices of Fire: Reweaving the Literary Lei of Pele and Hi'iaka by Ku'ualoha Ho'omanawanui

First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies

Voices of Fire: Reweaving the Literary Lei of Pele and Hi'iaka

Ku'ualoha Ho'omanawanui

285 pages paperback

2 editions

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Stories of the volcano goddess Pele and her youngest sister Hi'iaka, patron of hula, are most familiar as a form of literary colonialism--first translated by missionary descendants and others, then co-opted by Hollywood and the tourist industry. B...

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