Aloha America: Hula Circuits Through the U.S. Empire

389 Pages·2012·8.295 MB·English

by  Adria L. Imada

america
AlohA

Adria L. Imada
america
AlohA
Hula CirCuits tHrougH tHe u.s. empire

Duke University Press Durham and London 2012
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An earlier version of chapter 4 was published as “Hawai-
ians on Tour: Hula Circuits through the American Empire”
in American Quarterly 56, no. 1 (March 2004). Portions of
chapter 5 were previously published as “The Army Learns
to Luau: Imperial Hospitality and Military Photography in
Hawai‘i” in The Contemporary Pacific 20, no. 2 (2008).
Many times I have watched the ships sail in and out
of the port of Honolulu, and many times the question
came to my mind. Who made this great world? Why are
people different? Why are there different ways of talking?
What does the world look like away from here, far away?
Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl, The Conversion of Ka‘ahumanu

CoNteNts
ix note on lAnguAge
xi Acknowledgments
1 introduction Aloha America
29 chApter 1
Lady Jane at the Boathouse: The Intercultural World of Hula
59 chApter 2
Modern Desires and Counter-Colonial Tactics:
Gender, Performance, and the Erotics of Empire
103 chApter 3
Impresarios on the Midway: World’s Fairs and Colonial Politics
153 chApter 4
“Hula Queens” and “Cinderellas”: Imagined Intimacy in the Empire
213 chApter 5
The Troupes Meet the Troops: Imperial Hospitality and Military
Photography in the Pacific Theater
255 epilogue New Hula Movements
269 chronology
Hawai‘i Exhibits at International Expositions, 1894–1915
271 AbbreviAtions of collections, librAries, And Archives
273 notes
337 glossAry
339 bibliogrAphy

357 index

Note oN laNguage
Following modern Hawaiian orthography, I use diacritical marks—
the ‘okina (marking a glottal stop) and the kahakō (a macron indicat-
ing a long vowel)—for Hawaiian-language terms (e.g., Hawai‘i). Since
‘ōlelo Hawai‘i (Hawaiian language) and its Native epistemology are
critical and foundational to this study, I do not italicize Hawaiian
words, in order to avoid marking an indigenous language foreign.
Words such as “Hawaiian” are English words and therefore do not
require diacritical marks. Nineteenth-century and early twentieth-
century Hawaiian-language sources did not employ diacritical
marks, therefore I have preserved the original spelling of names and
words in these documents, with the exception of prominent names
that follow contemporary spelling conventions (e.g., Lili‘uokalani;
Kapahukulaokamāmalu).
Additionally, I use “Hawaiians” and “Native Hawaiians” to refer
to Kanaka Maoli, or the indigenous people of the Hawaiian archi-
pelago. Signifying indigeneity, these terms do not reference Hawai‘i
as a place of residence and therefore are not equivalent to a term like
“Californian.”