Decolonizing Discourses of Tropicality: Militourism and Aloha ‘Āina in Kiana Davenport’s Novels
This paper contextualizes Hawai‘i as a tropical landscape submerged under the discourse of exoticism which conceals the continuing American militarism, nuclearization, and tourist-oriented development in this archipelago. Militourism, as defined by Teresia Teaiwa, argues that the perpetuation of to...
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James Cook University
2023-07-01
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| Series: | eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.jcu.edu.au/etropic/article/view/3955 |