"I wish you a land": Hawai'i short story cycles and aloha 'aina

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Issues concerning the manner in which a geographical place defines the identity of third-generation Hawaiian writers are examined, focusing on a critical approach to "Volcano: A Memoir of Hawai'i," by Garret Hongo; "Talking to the Dead," by Sylvia Watanabe, and "Wild Meat and the Bully Burgers," by Lois-Ann Yamanaka. Topics include communal continuity, belonging, love of the land, and family relationships.

Hawaii, Literature, Asian Americans, Talking to the Dead (Book), Volcano: A Memoir of Hawai'i (Book), Wild Meat and the Bully Burgers (Book), Hongo, Garret, Watanabe, Sylvia, Yamanaka, Lois-Ann

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Heterotopic space in Andrew Hudgins' After the Lost War

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The article discusses the work of Andrew Hudgins 'After the Lost War: A Narrative' that recounts a tale of the South's Lost Cause. It further discusses pains taken to reverse the monumentalizing impulse behind a lot of American southern cultural memory of the war.

War stories, Critical essay, After the Lost War: A Narrative (Book), Hudgins, Andrew

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