Chris McKinney's True Hawai'i: Mililani Mauka and The Tattoo
Chris McKinney is known to many as a man who reveals the “dark underbelly” of Hawai‘i in his novels. He does not play into the tourist...
Critical Review: All I Asking For Is My Body
It isn’t a terribly difficult idea to comprehend that back in the day manual labour jobs such as plantation work forged a colourful and...
Shark Dialogues (Critical Review)
When it comes to reading a book I like to find myself intrigued from the moment I open the cover, absorbed into a completely different...
Being Japanese-American: After December 7, 1941
The lives of thousands of Japanese-Americans were forever changed on December 7, 1941, when the Japanese military released multiple...
The Picture Bride, A.K.A. the Perfect Bride
During the early 1900s, Japanese women went to Hawaiʻi in hopes of finding a husband and prosperous life, whether by finding a wealthy...
The Exiled: Ostracism and Ideologies During the Leprosy Epidemic in Hawaiʻi As Portrayed in Shark Di
In as early as the 1830s, Hansen’s disease – more commonly known as leprosy – was detected among foreigners and natives residing in...
What Are You?
The complexity and evolution of the mixed races of Hawai‘i has caused much discourse – in academic papers as well as in Hawai‘i’s...
Formation of Pidgin and Identity
As people from all around the world traveled thousands of miles to the Hawaiian Islands, the comfort of a familiar setting was left...
Comfort Woman - Tradition or Mental Disorder?
“Comfort Woman” by Nora Okja Keller tells the story of a Korean mother who obsesses over her daughter’s health and safety, protecting her...
The Kahuna in Pono
The novel Shark Dialogues by Kiana Davenport is centered on the life of Pono, a Hawaiian woman who has shamanistic powers, what the...
