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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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Slouching Towards Bethlehem

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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

Lilo & Stitchabout

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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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