Mo'olelo as Resistance
The Kaona of “Kahalaopuna” in a Colonized Environment
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6092264 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hopkin, Hopkins Hopkins (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 229 |
| Publication date | 2019-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Narrative Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2169-0235 • E-ISSN: 2169-0251 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.13110/narrcult.6.2.0229 |
| OpenAlex | W3141346331 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
The story of Kahalaopuna is a Hawaiian moʻolelo, a word that can mean story, tale, and history, with all of these definitions functioning simultaneously. These many levels of meaning are employed through a device called kaona, a Hawaiian oral and literary feature that allows any moʻolelo to speak to diverse audiences, conveying different meanings and varying depths to each. Although this story, "Kahalaopuna," was first published in English rather than Hawaiian (18 83), we see how the author, Emma Beckley, used Hawaiian literary devices, especially kaona, to convey very different messages to her English-speaking and Hawaiian-speaking readerships
Art · Biology · Linguistics · Literature · Asian American and Pacific Histories · History · Philosophy · Psychology · Ecology
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |