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Brandy Nalani McDougall
Finding Meaning: Kaona and Contemporary Hawaiian Literature
In this first extensive study of contemporary Hawaiian literature, Brandy Nalāni McDougall examin... more In this first extensive study of contemporary Hawaiian literature, Brandy Nalāni McDougall examines a vibrant selection of fiction, poetry, and drama by emerging and established Hawaiian authors, including Haunani-Kay Trask, John Dominis Holt, Imaikalani Kalahele, and Victoria Nālani Kneubuhl. At the center of the analysis is a hallmark of Hawaiian aes-thetics—kaona, the intellectual practice of hiding and finding meaning that encompasses the allegorical, the symbolic, the allusive, and the figurative. With a poet's attention to detail, McDougall interprets examples of kaona, guiding readers through ōlelo no'eau (proverbs), mo'olelo (literature and histories), and mo'okū'auhau (genealogies) alongside their contemporary literary descendants, unveiling complex layers of Hawaiian identity, culture, history, politics, and ecology. Throughout, McDougall asserts that " kaona connectivity " not only carries bright possibilities for connecting the present to the past, but it may also ignite a decolonial future. Ultimately, Finding Meaning affirms the tremendous power
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May 2022 Poem-a-Day Guest Woman Brandy Nālani McDougall
In 2022, the Institution of Indweller Poets welcome twelve poets to reaching curate a month put poems. Draw this petite Q&A, Brandy Nālani McDougall discusses socialize curatorial dispensing and absorption own machiavellian work.
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Brandy Nālani McDougall
From Kula, Maui, Brandy Nālani McDougall is the author of a poetry collection, The Salt-Wind, Ka Makani Paʻakai (2008), the co-founder of Ala Press and Kahuaomānoa Press, the co-star of a poetry album, Undercurrent (2011), and the co-editor of Huihui: Navigating Art and Literature in the Pacific (2014). Her book Finding Meaning: Kaona and Contemporary Hawaiian Literature (University of Arizona Press, May 2016) is the first extensive study of contemporary Hawaiian literature and recently won the Beatrice Medicine Award for Scholarship in American Indian Studies. She is an Associate Professor of American Studies at UH Mānoa
Finding Meaning: Kaona and Contemporary Hawaiian Literature
In this first extensive study of contemporary Hawaiian literature, Brandy Nalani McDougall examines a selection of fiction, poetry and drama by emerging and established Hawaiian authors, including Haunani Kay-Trask, John Dominis Holt, Imaikalani Kalahele, and Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl. At the center of the analysis is a hallmark of Hawaiian aesthetics—kaona, the intellectual practice of hiding and finding meaning that encompasses the allegorical, the symbolic, the allusive, and the figurative. With a poet's attention to detail, McDougall i