Finding Meaning: Kaona and Contemporary Hawaiian Literature

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In this first extensive study of contemporary Hawaiian literature, Brandy Nalani McDougall examines a vibrant selection of fiction, poetry, and drama by emerging and established Hawaiian authors. At the center of the analysis is a hallmark of Hawaiian aesthetics-kaona, the intellectual practice of hiding and finding meaning that encompasses the allegorical, the symbolic, the allusive, and the figurative.