Detours: A Decolonial Guide to Hawai'i

✍ Scribed by Hokulani K. Aikau (editor); Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez (editor)

Publisher: Duke University Press
Year: 2019
Tongue: English
Leaves: 444
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

In this brilliant reinvention of the travel guide, artists, activists, and scholars redirect readers from the fantasy of Hawai‘i as a tropical paradise and tourist destination toward a multilayered and holistic engagement with Hawai‘i’s culture, complex history, and the effects of colonialism.

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