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Aloha America : hula circuits through the U.S. empire
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Aloha America : hula circuits through the U.S. empire / Adria L. Imada.
ISBN
9780822351962 (cloth : alk. paper)
082235196X (cloth : alk. paper)
9780822352075 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0822352079 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Published
Durham : Duke University Press, 2012.
Physical Description
xiv, 374 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 10, 2012
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction : Aloha America
Lady Jane at the boathouse : the intercultural world of hula
Modern desires and counter-colonial tactics : gender, performance, and the erotics of empire
Impresarios on the midway : World's Fairs and colonial politics
"Hula queens" and "Cinderellas" : imagined intimacy in the empire
The troupes meet the troops : military photography and imperial hospitality in the Pacific theater
Epilogue : new hula movements
Appendix : Hawai'i exhibits at international expositions, 1894-1915.
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