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- Title
COMPETITION, COMPLICITY, AND (POTENTIAL) ALLIANCE: NATIVE HAWAIIAN AND ASIAN IMMIGRANT NARRATIVES AT THE BISHOP MUSEUM.
- Authors
KING, LISA
- Abstract
The Bishop Museum of Honolulu, Hawai'i, is an institution that has imperative to serve Native Hawaiian communities, but also has other contributing communities. The question is how these responsibilities between communities might be balanced, if they can be balanced, especially given history of colonialism in Hawai'i. In an attempt to elucidate these complexities, this essay examines the rhetorical relationship between the Native Hawaiian permanent exhibit, Hawaiian Hall, and the immigrant community exhibit series, "Tradition and Transition." Through a rhetorical reading of both exhibits, the essay demonstrates the ways in which these two seemingly closed and even contradictory narratives of life on the Hawaiian islands compete one another, but if read with an eye toward the mechanisms of colonialism settler colonialism, can be read together under an Indigenously-based alliance a critique of the systems that created the exigencies for each of these narratives.
- Subjects
HAWAII; BERNICE Pauahi Bishop Museum; COLONIES; IMMIGRANTS; MUSEUM exhibits; ASIANS; EXHIBITIONS; SOCIAL history
- Publication
College Literature, 2014, Vol 41, Issue 1, p43
- ISSN
0093-3139
- Publication type
Essay