| The Power of the Steel-tipped Pen: Reconstructing Native Hawaiian Intellectual History Contributor(s): Silva, Noenoe K. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0822363526 ISBN-13: 9780822363521 Publisher: Duke University Press OUR PRICE: $97.80 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - State & Local - West (ak, Ca, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, Wy) - Social Science | Indigenous Studies - History | Historiography |
| Dewey: 996.902 |
| LCCN: 2016046670 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.3" W x 9.2" (1.15 lbs) 288 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Geographic Orientation - Hawaii |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In The Power of the Steel-tipped Pen Noenoe K. Silva reconstructs the indigenous intellectual history of a culture where-using Western standards-none is presumed to exist. Silva examines the work of two lesser-known Hawaiian writers-Joseph Ho'ona'auao Kānepu'u (1824-ca. 1885) and Joseph Moku'ōhai Poepoe (1852-1913)-to show how the rich intellectual history preserved in Hawaiian-language newspapers is key to understanding Native Hawaiian epistemology and ontology. In their newspaper articles, geographical surveys, biographies, historical narratives, translations, literatures, political and economic analyses, and poetic works, Kānepu'u and Poepoe created a record of Hawaiian cultural history and thought in order to transmit ancestral knowledge to future generations. Celebrating indigenous intellectual agency in the midst of US imperialism, The Power of the Steel-tipped Pen is a call for the further restoration of native Hawaiian intellectual history to help ground contemporary Hawaiian thought, culture, and governance. |