Memorializing Pu‘uloa and Remembering Pearl Harbor
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23199303 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jon Kamakawiwo‘ole Osorio, Jon Osorio (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Pages | 3-14 |
| Publication date | 2010-04-12 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Militarized currents (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | University of Minnesota Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.5749/minnesota/9780816665051.003.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W2496971176 |
| ISBN | 9780816665051 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
This chapter provides a countermemory and counterdiscourse to the master historiographical narratives of Japan’s “surprise attack” on the United States during World War II. By foregrounding the Hawaiian naming of Pu’uloa, the imposed colonial renaming of Pearl Harbor is unsettled. The American naming can be understood as a process of militarized colonization inscribing and claiming possession of the altered and now-prohibitive militarized terrain. The chapter begins the discussion with Hawaiian song and poetry that recalls another system of values and epistemologies of the place known as Pu’uloa. By recounting personal familial genealogies that intimately connect American militarism with Hawaiian dispossession and anticolonial movements, the chapter explores the complex dynamics of memory and the different forces of identity formation and divergent desires across four generations.
Archaeology · Art · Pearl · Asian American and Pacific Histories · History · Psychology · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
| Citations per year | 0.18 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2015 - 2017 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |