Defiant Indigeneity: The Politics of Hawaiian Performance (Critical Indigeneities)

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“Aloha” is at once the most significant and the most misunderstood word in the Indigenous Hawaiian lexicon. For K&257;naka Maoli people, the concept that of “aloha” is a representation and articulation of their identity, regardless of its misappropriation and commandeering by non-Native audiences in the type of such things as the “hula girl” of pop culture. Making an allowance for the way aloha is embodied, performed, and interpreted in Native Hawaiian literature, music, plays, dance, drag performance, and even ghost tours from the twentieth century to the present, Stephanie Nohelani Teves shows that misunderstanding of the concept that by non-Native audiences has not prevented the K&257;naka Maoli from the use of it to create and empower community and articulate its distinct Indigenous meaning.

While Native Hawaiian artists, activists, scholars, and other performers have labored to educate diverse publics about the complexity of Indigenous Hawaiian identity, ongoing acts of violence against Indigenous communities have undermined these efforts. On this multidisciplinary work, Teves argues that Indigenous peoples will have to continue to embrace the performance of their identities in the face of this violence with the intention to challenge settler-colonialism and its efforts to contain and commodify Hawaiian Indigeneity.

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