Tourism, culture, and reindigenization in Kiana Davenport'sShark Dialoguesand Georgia Ka'apuni McMillen'sSchool for Hawaiian Girls
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2178452 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anthony Carrigan |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 181-190 |
| Publication date | 2009-06-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Postcolonial Writing (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1744-9855 • E-ISSN: 1744-9863 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17449850902820027 |
| OpenAlex | W2033639471 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 13 |
Mass tourism is often seen as a central component of globalization and has been widely criticized for its neocolonial affinities and culturally homogenizing effects. This article explores how two novels by authors with native Hawaiian ancestry offer contrasting depictions of tourism’s cultural intersections which problematize straightforward opposition to the industry. Comparing Georgia Ka‘apuni McMillen’s School for Hawaiian Girls (2001 McMillen, Georgia K. 2005. School for Hawaiian Girls. 2001, New York: Permanent. [Google Scholar]) and Kiana Davenport’s Shark Dialogues (1994 Davenport, Kiana. 1995. Shark Dialogues. 1994, New York: Plume. [Google Scholar]), it shows how these texts offer different but not incompatible ways of working through paradoxes associated with native negotiations of tourist modernity. Although both novels critique the tourism industry’s exploitative dimensions, they also highlight its contribution to processes of reindigenization, furthering cultural growth. As such they indicate how Hawaiian literature can contribute to a rerouting of postcolonialism that accounts for aspects of global travel’s complex cultural effects
Archaeology · Ethnography · Globalization · Modernity · Negotiation · Opposition (politics · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Tourism · Anthropology · Asian American and Pacific Histories · Philippine History and Culture · Travel Writing and Literature · Gender Studies · History · Law
The Postcolonial Exotic
Tourism and Postcolonialism
Culture on tour
Reimagining the American Pacific
Cultural Studies Amongst the Sharks
Power, Identity and the Production of Buffer Villages in “the Second Most Remote Region in all of Mexico”
Tourism, Ethnicity, and the State in Asian and Pacific Societies
Indigenous Articulations
From a Native Daughter
The Predicament of Culture
| Citations per year | 0.36 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2012 - 2026 (15) |
| Highly cited | No |