And the view from the shore : literary traditions of Hawai'i /
Stephen H. Sumida.
- First paperback edition.
- Seattle : University of Washington Press, (c)2014.
- 1 online resource.
- Samuel and Althea Stroum Book .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Preface ; About Spelling and Capitalization ; Myths At First Sight ; Paradise of the Pacific? Nineteenth-Century Prototypes in American Literature ; Hawaii's Pastoral: From Mele Hula to the Childhood Idyll ; Hawaii's Complex Idyll: All I Asking for Is My Body and Waimea Summer ; Hawaii's Heroic Literature: ""Our People, Our History"" ; Hawaii's Local Literary Tradition: ""To Speak of Things So Real"" ; Notes ; Bibliography ; Index.
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American literature--History and criticism.--Hawaii American literature--Asian American authors--History and criticism. American literature--Pacific Islander American authors--History and criticism. Authors, American--Homes and haunts--Hawaii. Pacific Islander Americans in literature. Asian Americans in literature.