Ono Ono Girl's Hula
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| Rating | : | 4.92 (936 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0299156346 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 196 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-03-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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Rob Wilson said A loco moco brew of mongrel identity politics, more or less.. Ono Ono Girl's Hula ia a "loco moc" brew of mongrel identity politics, more or less, emanating as much from the grounds of cultural political struggle in contemporary Hawai'i as much as from the verbal flux of the diasporic Pacific Rim and the ethnic opportunism of California. I like it a lot, at times crazed and infuriated as I read the schizo-text of herstory; Carolyn Lau (who was a great Chinese poet in days. Pele Ah Chu said Pseudo-Hawaiian Mask, Post-Colonialist Face. I wanted to give this book 0 stars, you know? Anyway, what got me was the character of the Native Hawaiian policeman whose only human quality was his sexual availability, and whose only character trait was his bad temperand this made-up character was said by the author to typify Native Hawaiians! They used to call that kind of generality Racism. This book by someone who is not Native Hawaiian but uses Hawaiian
-- Copyright ©1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. She justifies her narrativeless technique always in political terms. An award- winning poet herself, she repeatedly cites William Blake as her hero. Lei-lanilau was born in Hawaii of Chinese Hakka heritage into a home where only English was permitted; not until later in life did she discover the pleasures of the Chinese and Hawaiian languages. Boldly irreverent, but also reckless and dissipated, personal writing. All rights reserved.. From Kirkus Reviews A collection of ``chants,'' as the author calls them, that constitutes a post-Tan/Hong Kingston Amerasian anti-autobiography of sorts. While Lei-lanilau's 200-watt brand of radical feminism can be inspiring, her book is just as affecting in its more complex and dappled passages, such as her self-deprecating recollection of returning home from a lackluster night out to find her grown children waiting up for her. Embrac
This collection of essays on ethnic and sexual identity revolves around the persona that the author calls Ono Ono Girl. Challenging assumptions about genre and gender and acting out the notion that language is a function of the body, these essays are soundbites of Ono Ono Girl inventing herself.