Introduction : Aloha America -- Lady Jane at the boathouse : the intercultural world of hula -- Modern desires and counter-colonial tactics : gender, performance, and the erotics of empire -- Impresarios on the midway : World's Fairs and colonial politics -- "Hula queens" and "Cinderellas" : imagined intimacy in the empire -- The troupes meet the troops : military photography and imperial hospitality in the Pacific theater -- Epilogue : new hula movements -- Appendix : Hawai'i exhibits at international expositions, 1894-1915
Summary
Paying particular attention to hula performances that toured throughout the U.S. beginning in the late nineteenth century, Adria L. Imada investigates the role of hula in the American colonization of Hawai'i
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
English
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