Sumida, Stephen H.,

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.


Electronic Books.

PS283 / .A538 2014