Breaching the Archive: Writing and Being Written by Kanaka Maoli Lives

March 4, 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Mānoa Campus, Dean Hall ACCESS 6/7

A conversation between Craig Howes and Kamalani Johnson: Writing and being written by lived human and non-humans lives is a mutual and co-constitutive process Kānaka Maoli have long engaged through moʻolelo (oral, literary, and aesthetic narrative practices) over millenia. In this conversation, life writing scholars Kamalani Johnson and Craig Howes will explore the intersection of Kānaka Maoli life writing, archives, and intellectual sovereignty, particularly around the politics of writing Kānaka Maoli lives of the past into the contemporary, the ethical considerations an interlocuter should have when engaging, and also the contributions biobibliography offer conversations on Kānaka Maoli life writing.


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College of Social Sciences, Mānoa Campus

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