Eia Hawaiʻi Lecture with Kamalani Johnson - Event Details
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Eia Hawaiʻi Lecture with Kamalani Johnson
Location: UCB 127
Storying and Being Storied by the ʻĀina: Hilo Moʻolelo of Survivance
Moʻolelo is an all-encompassing and comprehensive category of Kānaka Maoli literary practices inclusive of history, oracy, speech, poetics, and aesthetics. Situating Hilo, and more specifically Mōkaulele, the ʻāina that the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo sits as a springboard, this illustrated research presentation will explore moʻolelo as a reciprocal aesthetic practice that includes a mutual and co-constitutive process between storyteller and story.
Spanning 66 years and Hawaiʻiʻs kingdom and territorial eras from 1863 to 1929, I will unpack how Kānaka Maoli turned to moʻolelo as a mode of survivance through the onslaught of American colonialism and US imiperialism through Puaaloaʻs "Ka Moʻolelo o Maui" (1863) published in Ka Nupepa Kuokoa, John E. Bushʻs "Ka Moolelo -o- Hiiakaikapoliopele" (1893) published in Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Mose Manuʻs "hea Moolelo Kaao Hawaii -No- Laukaieie" (1894) published in Ka Leo o ka Lahui, and Nalimuʻs "Aia i Honolulu Kuu Pohaku," (1929) publsihed in Ke Alakai o Hawaii.
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