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Hollywood's Hawaii

Race, Nation, and War

By: Delia Caparoso Konzett

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Hollywood's Hawaii

Race, Nation, and War

By: Delia Caparoso Konzett

Hollywood's Hawaii is the first full-length study of the film industry's intense engagement with Hawaii and the South Pacific from 1898 to the present. This book presents a history of cinema that examines Hawaii and the Pacific and its representation in film in the context of colonialism, war, Orientalism, occupation, military buildup, and entertainment.

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War Culture

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0813587433

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9780813587431

Hollywood's Hawaii

Race, Nation, and War

By: Delia Caparoso Konzett

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Hollywood's Hawaii

Race, Nation, and War

By: Delia Caparoso Konzett

Whether presented as exotic fantasy, a strategic location during World War II, or a site combining postwar leisure with military culture, Hawaii and the South Pacific figure prominently in the U.S. national imagination. Hollywood’s Hawaii is the first full-length study of the film industry’s intense engagement with the Pacific region from 1898 to the present. Delia Malia Caparoso Konzett highlights films that mirror the cultural and political climate of the country over more than a century—from the era of U.S. imperialism on through Jim Crow racial segregation, the attack on Pearl Harbor and WWII, the civil rights movement, the contemporary articulation of consumer and leisure culture, as well as the buildup of the modern military industrial complex. Focusing on important cultural questions pertaining to race, nationhood, and war, Konzett offers a unique view of Hollywood film history produced about the national periphery for mainland U.S. audiences. Hollywood’s Hawaii presents a history of cinema that examines Hawaii and the Pacific and its representations in film in the context of colonialism, war, Orientalism, occupation, military buildup, and entertainment.

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Rutgers University Press

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0813587468

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9780813587462

Ethnic Modernisms

Anzia Yezierska, Zora Neale Hurston, Jean Rhys, and the Aesthetics of Dislocation

By: D. Konzett

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Ethnic Modernisms

Anzia Yezierska, Zora Neale Hurston, Jean Rhys, and the Aesthetics of Dislocation

By: D. Konzett

This study explores a new understanding of modernism and ethnicity as put forward in the transnational and diasporic writings of Anzia Yezierska, Zora Neale Hurston, and Jean Rhys. In its selection of three modernists from apparently different cultural backgrounds, it is meant to make us rethink the role of modernism in terms of ethnicity and displacement. Konzett critiques the traditional understanding of the monocultural 'ethnic identity' often highlighted in the studies of these writers and argues that all three writers are better understood as ironic narrators of diaspora and movement and as avant-garde modernists. As a result, they offer an alternative aesthetics of modernism which is centered around the innovative narration of displacement. Her analysis of the complexities of language and form and impact of the complex and ambiguous formal styles of the three writers on the history of their reception is a model of the effective integration of formalist, historicist, and theoretical perspectives in literary criticism.

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0312293453

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