Reading Joan Didion Taught Me How to Not Write About Hawaiʻi
Didion depicts Hawaiʻi as a place that exists solely in the white American imagination, and, because of this, her journalism is a fiction.
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
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The White Album
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From a Native Daughter: Colonialism and Sovereignty in HawaiʻiSlouching Towards Bethlehem
From a Native DaughterThe Wretched of the Earth
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Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary ImaginationFrom Here to Eternity
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When we try to make our writing about something, as Didion does, these themes and theses colonize our characters and the places we write, imposing a meaning onto them that they often did not ask for and that, in many instances, is harmful to them.
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Originally from Honolulu, Hawai`i, Mariah Rigg is a Samoan-Haole writer and educator. She has an MFA from the University of Oregon and is currently a PhD student at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Oxford American, The Cincinnati Review, Joyland, and elsewhere.
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